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Grace Witcraft 1886 - 1969

Grace Witcraft of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa was born on July 18, 1886, and died at age 82 years old in April 1969.
Grace Witcraft
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa 50313
July 18, 1886
April 1969
Female
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    1886

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    July 18, 1886
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  • 04/dd
    1969

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    April 1969
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    Grace Witcraft lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1886, in the year that Grace Witcraft was born, on May 4th, a general strike began in Chicago. Workers were striking for an 8 hour workday and in protest of the killing - by police - of several workers the day before. When an unknown person threw a dynamite bomb, the strike became violent. Seven policemen were killed as well as 4 civilians. It became known as the Haymarket Riot and eventually resulted in an 8 hourwork day as well as commemorations on May 1st for worker's rights.
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In 1890, at the age of only 4 years old, Grace was alive when on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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