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Emmette Gilliam 1888 - 1970

Emmette Gilliam of Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee was born on July 8, 1888, and died at age 82 years old in October 1970.
Emmette Gilliam
Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee 37040
July 8, 1888
October 1970
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    1888

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    July 8, 1888
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  • 10/dd
    1970

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    October 1970
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    Emmette Gilliam lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1888, in the year that Emmette Gilliam was born, on August 7th, the body of a prostitute was found in the Whitechapel section of London. Martha Tabram had been stabbed 39 times - a possible but not confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper. On August 31st, the body of Mary Ann Nichols was found - stabbed and mutilated. On September 8th, the body of Annie Chapman was found - throat slit and disemboweled. On September 30th, Elizabeth Stride, also a prostitute in Whitechapel, was found dead from a slit throat. Within an hour, another body was discovered - Catherine Eddowes'. She was far more savagely murdered and it is thought that the Ripper had more time with her. Then, on November 9th, the body of prostitute Mary Jane Kelly was found in a boarding room in Whitechapel. Considered to be the probable fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims, Kelly's was the most savage of his murders.
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In 1891, Emmette was only 3 years old when James Naismith, at the Springfield Massachusetts YMCA, invented the game of basketball. Originally using two peach baskets and a soccer ball, he created the game to keep his students active during the long, harsh New England winters.
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