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Elizabeth Lynn Shaffer (1894 - 1918)
Elizabeth Lynn Shaffer was born on April 29, 1894 in West Virginia. She was born to Marcus Lafayette Shaffer and Sarah "Sallie" (Christopher) Shaffer, with siblings Lawrence, Ernest, Charles, William, Dayton, Biddie, Jesse, Mary, and Marcus. She died on October 27, 1918 in Plymouth, West Virginia at age 24.
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Elizabeth Lynn Shaffer
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Elizabeth Shaffer was born on in Putnam County, West Virginia
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Elizabeth Shaffer died on in Plymouth, Putnam County, West Virginia
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Wade Chapel Church Cemetery, in Putnam County, West Virginia
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Elizabeth Lynn Shaffer passed away on October 27, 1918 in Plymouth, West Virginia at age 24. She was buried in Wade Chapel Church Cemetery, West Virginia. Elizabeth was born on April 29, 1894 in West Virginia. She was born to Marcus Lafayette Shaffer and Sarah "Sallie" (Christopher) Shaffer, with siblings Lawrence, Ernest, Charles, William, Dayton, Biddie, Jesse, Mary, and Marcus.
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In 1894, in the year that Elizabeth Lynn Shaffer was born, on April 21st, a coal miners' strike closed mines throughout the central United States. The Panic of 1893, and the resulting depression, hit coal miners hard and the miners only struck for 8 weeks - they couldn't afford to live without their wages any longer.
In 1900, she was just 6 years old when artist Henri Matisse, born in 1869 in France, began the fauvist movement. Only lasting a few years in popularity (ending around 1904), fauvism was in many ways the beginning of modern art. Matisse was fond of bright, vibrant colors and used them in his paintings - contrary to the muted use of color previously. While the fauvist movement declined in popularity, Matisse did not and he went on to create many more works of art and even a museum for his work, 2 years before his death in 1954. (In French, les Fauves means "the wild beasts". Matisse and those who followed his example were called "beasts" because of the bold colors that they used in their artwork.)
In 1909, by the time she was merely 15 years old, the NAACP was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois. The organization focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day - which included lynching and segregation in schools. The goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution.
In 1918, in the year of Elizabeth Lynn Shaffer's passing, in July, Russian revolutionaries executed the former Tzar Nicholas II and his immediate family. While it was rumored that two of the children had survived, it was later proven through DNA analysis - when their bodies were found - that the entire family had been killed.
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