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Jessie Owens 1894 - 1977

Jessie Owens of Belzoni, Humphreys County, Mississippi was born on October 28, 1894, and died at age 82 years old in May 1977.

Jessie Owens
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Belzoni, Humphreys County, Mississippi 39038
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In 1894, in the year that Jessie Owens was born, large reserves of oil were discovered on the Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma. Previously thought to be "useless" land - not even good for farming - the tribe had bought the land themselves. The discovery of oil made the Osage the "richest group of people in the world" at the time.
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In 1906, at the age of merely 12 years old, Jessie was alive when author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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Owens, Jessie (Mar 10, 1925 - May 5, 1952) Owens, Jessie (Aug 31, 1929 - Jul 2, 1991) Owens, Jessie (Sep 23, 1893 - Nov 1964) Owens, Jessie (Mar 15, 1903 - Jul 1966) Owens, Jessie (Feb 25, 1874 - Jul 1966) Owens, Jessie (Feb 18, 1930 - Mar 1, 2006) Owens, Jessie (Oct 2, 1908 - Dec 25, 1992) Owens, Jessie (Oct 6, 1915 - Oct 30, 2006) Owens, Jessie (Jul 12, 1885 - May 1982) Owens, Jessie (Aug 28, 1915 - Jul 6, 2001)
Owens, Jessie (Sep 3, 1899 - Aug 1985) Owens, Jessie (Jul 31, 1903 - Dec 1985) Owens, Jessie (Oct 5, 1902 - Dec 1984) Owens, Jessie (Sep 17, 1910 - Aug 6, 2005) Owens, Jessie (May 11, 1911 - May 1972) Owens, Jessie (Sep 15, 1913 - Apr 1973) Owens, Jessie (Jan 6, 1913 - Mar 2, 2001) Owens, Jessie (Jan 30, 1893 - Jul 1977) Owens, Jessie (Feb 10, 1891 - Jun 1981) Owens, Jessie (Jun 12, 1930 - Jan 5, 2002)

Other Owens Family Biographies

Howell-Owens-zachary, Elizabeth (Born 1844) Owens, William (Born Oct 11, 1857) Owens, Selena (Born Oct 17, 1857) Owens, George (Born Sep 25, 1875) Owens, Arrie (Born Sep 22, 1877) Owens, Pinkney (Feb 5, 1881 - Jun 1967) Owens, Ensley (Born May 8, 1884) Owens, Julius (Born Apr 27, 1892) Owens, Dovie (Born Nov 19, 1887) Owens, P.o. (Born Feb 5, 1881)
Minturn/owens, Evelyn (Born Sep 12, 1925) Owens, Donald (Mar 6, 1939 - Feb 28, 1998) Owens, Lela (Born 1880) Owens, Dora (Born Mar 6, 1907) Owens, Lura (Born Oct 6, 1885) Owens, Billie (Born c. 1929) Owens, Vernon (Born Jan 9, 1907) Owens, Ethell (Jul 10, 1908 - Dec 21, 1991) Owens, Dona Owens, Helen (May 2, 1879 - Apr 1968)
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