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Forrest Vangilder 1899 - 1976

Forrest Vangilder of Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia was born on June 28, 1899, and died at age 76 years old in May 1976.
Forrest Vangilder
Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia 26201
June 28, 1899
May 1976
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  • 06/28
    1899

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    June 28, 1899
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  • 05/dd
    1976

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    May 1976
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    Forrest Vangilder lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 76.
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In 1899, in the year that Forrest Vangilder was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1927, at the age of 28 years old, Forrest was alive when the first "talkie" (a movie with music, songs, and talking), The Jazz Singer, was released. Al Jolson starred as a cantor's son who instead of following in his father's footsteps as expected, becomes a singer of popular songs. Banished by his father, they reconcile on his father's deathbed. It was a tear-jerker and audiences went wild - especially when they heard the songs. Thus begun the demise of silent films and the rise of "talkies".
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