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Lela Holyfield 1899 - 1971

Lela Holyfield of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA was born on June 24, 1899, and died at age 71 years old in January 1971.
Lela Holyfield
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA 15213
June 24, 1899
January 1971
Female
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    1899

    Birthday

    June 24, 1899
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  • 01/dd
    1971

    Death

    January 1971
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    Lela Holyfield lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 71.
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In 1899, in the year that Lela Holyfield was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1905, she was only 6 years old when the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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