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Jessie Legette 1879 - 1966

Jessie Legette of De Kalb, Kemper County, Mississippi was born on April 18, 1879, and died at age 87 years old in August 1966.
Jessie Legette
De Kalb, Kemper County, Mississippi 39328
April 18, 1879
August 1966
Female
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    1879

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    April 18, 1879
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    1966

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    August 1966
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    Jessie Legette lived 22 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1879, in the year that Jessie Legette was born, on October 22nd, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric light bulb. Lasting 13½ hours before burning out, it used a "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires". He applied for a patent on November 4th, receiving the patent in January 1880.
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In 1925, by the time she was 46 years old, in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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