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Elijah Christian 1890 - 1978

Elijah Christian of Gladstone, Nelson County, Virginia was born on June 24, 1890, and died at age 88 years old in November 1978.
Elijah Christian
Gladstone, Nelson County, Virginia 24553
June 24, 1890
November 1978
Male
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  • 06/24
    1890

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    June 24, 1890
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  • 11/dd
    1978

    Death

    November 1978
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    Elijah Christian lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1890, in the year that Elijah Christian was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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In 1914, Elijah was 24 years old when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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