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Jess Connell 1897 - 1980

Jess Connell of Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma was born on April 22, 1897, and died at age 83 years old in August 1980.
Jess Connell
Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma 74859
April 22, 1897
August 1980
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Jess Connell's History: 1897 - 1980

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  • 04/22
    1897

    Birthday

    April 22, 1897
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  • 08/dd
    1980

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    August 1980
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    Jess Connell lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 83.
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In 1897, in the year that Jess Connell 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 1943, Jess was 46 years old when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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