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Florence Jay Lewis 1878 - 1965

Florence Jay Lewis was born on April 9, 1878 in Cape Breton County, NS to Frederick James Lewis Jr and Mary Ann Morrison, and had a sister Lucretia Catherine Lewis. Florence Lewis married Morris Edmund Speare, and died at age 87 years old on May 3, 1965 in Washington County, DC.

Florence Jay Lewis
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April 9, 1878
Cape Breton County, NS
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    She was a very young child during the diaspora of Mi'kmaq peoples from Mi'kma'ki to Massachusetts in the late 1800s and may have known little about that period of her life. Florence Jay Lewis also Florence Lewis Speare, one of eight daughters of Mary Ann Morrison and Frederick James Lewis Jr of Wunamakik (Cape Breton NS) was a published writer and the wife of Morris Edmund Speare (1884 - 1974), the son of Mary Rosenberg and Jacob Speare. Florence Jay and Morris Edmund Speare were married ca 1915 and are not known to have had any children.
  • 04/9
    1878

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    April 9, 1878
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    Cape Breton County, NS
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    Native American

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    Mi'kmaq

  • Professional Career

    Published writer; screenplays and other works.
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    1965

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    May 3, 1965
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    Washington County, DC
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In 1878, in the year that Florence Jay Lewis was born, in Africa, the death of the last confirmed Cape lion occurred. The Cape lion was slightly larger than other lions and had black ears, a black mane, and black hair on its belly.
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In 1904, at the age of 26 years old, Florence was alive when the first underground line of the New York City subway system opened. London's underground system was opened in 1863 and Boston opened one in 1897, but New York quickly became the largest system in the U.S. More than 100,000 people paid 5 cents to ride under Manhattan that first day.
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