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Garland Melton 1898 - 1985

Garland Melton of Troup, Smith County, Texas was born on January 17, 1898, and died at age 87 years old in March 1985.
Garland Melton
Troup, Smith County, Texas 75789
January 17, 1898
March 1985
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Garland Melton's History: 1898 - 1985

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    1898

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    January 17, 1898
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  • 03/dd
    1985

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    March 1985
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    Garland Melton lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1898, in the year that Garland Melton was born, on February 15th, the USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana harbor. The reason for the explosion has never been found, but it killed 266 men. "Remember the Maine" became a rallying cry and precipitated the United States' declaration of war on Spain two months later - the beginning of the Spanish-American War. On December 10th, the war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The Treaty gave the U.S. Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam - for $20 million - and, temporarily, Cuba.
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In 1906, he was only 8 years old when abolitionist and suffragette leader Susan B. Anthony died, before women's right to vote nationally was realized (in 1920). She, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association which later became the League of Women Voters. She died at the age of 86 of heart failure and pneumonia in her home in New York.
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