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Ellar McPherson 1897 - 1957

Ellar M. McPherson Jones was born on June 7, 1897 to William McPherson and Nellie Hogan, and had siblings Fred McPherson, Ethel McPherson, Rutherford McPherson, Arnetta McPherson, William McPherson, Pocahontas McPherson, Lue McPherson, and Fred McPherson. She married Bunion Jones on November 2, 1916, and had children William Jones, Henry Jones, Alma Jones, Sam Jones, Raymond Jones, Fred Jones, Shelby Jones, and Mary Jones. Ellar McPherson died at age 60 years old on December 27, 1957.
Ellar M. McPherson Jones
June 7, 1897
December 27, 1957
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    1957

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    December 27, 1957
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    Ellar McPherson lived 12 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 60.
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In 1897, in the year that Ellar McPherson was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1905, when she was merely 8 years old, the Niagara Falls conference was held in Fort Erie, Ontario. Led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, a group of African-American men met in opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Booker T. Washington had been calling for policies of accommodation and conciliation and these two men, along with the others who attended the conference, felt that this was accomplishing nothing. The group was the precursor to the NAACP.
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