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Leonia Cummings 1890 - 1978

Leonia Cummings of Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Mississippi was born on March 26, 1890, and died at age 88 years old in October 1978.
Leonia Cummings
Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Mississippi 39194
March 26, 1890
October 1978
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  • 03/26
    1890

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    March 26, 1890
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  • 10/dd
    1978

    Death

    October 1978
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    Leonia Cummings lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1890, in the year that Leonia Cummings was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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In 1935, at the age of 45 years old, Leonia was alive when the BOI's name (the Bureau of Investigation) was changed to the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and it officially became a separate agency with the Department of Justice. J. Edgar Hoover, the Chief of the BOI, continued in his office and became the first Director of the FBI. The FBI's responsibility is to "detect and prosecute crimes against the United States".
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