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Gretta Tankersley 1903 - 2005

Gretta Tankersley of Blanchard, McClain County, OK was born on July 28, 1903, and died at age 101 years old on June 2, 2005.

Gretta Tankersley
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Blanchard, McClain County, OK 73010
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July 28, 1903
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In 1903, in the year that Gretta Tankersley was born, the book The Souls of Black Folk, written by W. E. B. Du Bois, was published. Containing several essays on the African-American experience in America, much of the book was based on Du Bois' own life. The book was one of the very early works in the science of sociology.
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In 1924, she was 21 years old when in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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Tankersley, Mary (Born Jul 22, 1890) Tankersley, Ella (Born Jul 23, 1898) Tankersley, Calvin (Jul 6, 1902 - Jun 1972) Tankersley, Malinda A (Born Nov 7, 1818) Tankersley, William (Born Oct 10, 1843) Tankersley, Caledonia E (Born Dec 4, 1861) Tankersley, Oscar (Born Feb 3, 1880) Tankersley, Aminta P (Born 1881) Tankersley, Daniel (Born Nov 30, 1886) Tankersley, Henry (Born 1898)
Tankersley, May (Born 1891) Tankersley, Jennie M (Born 1879) Tankersley, Judge (Sep 5, 1888 - Feb 1979) Tankersley, Linda (Nov 8, 1947 - Dec 11, 2004) Tankersley, Joanne (Dec 6, 1935 - Jul 5, 2005) Tankersley, Linda (Apr 20, 1948 - Sep 14, 2008) Tankersley, Jeffrey (Feb 27, 1955 - May 1975) Tankersley, Helen (Dec 10, 1917 - May 31, 2001) Tankersley, Gladys (May 7, 1906 - Mar 1987) Tankersley, Robert (Aug 12, 1909 - Feb 1986)
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