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Flossie Wittrup 1897 - 1983

Flossie Wittrup of Geneseo, Livingston County, NY was born on June 15, 1897, and died at age 85 years old in February 1983.
Flossie Wittrup
Geneseo, Livingston County, NY 14454
June 15, 1897
February 1983
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  • 06/15
    1897

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    June 15, 1897
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  • 02/dd
    1983

    Death

    February 1983
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    Flossie Wittrup lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.
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In 1897, in the year that Flossie Wittrup 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 1925, Flossie was 28 years old when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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