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Letha Ward 1888 - 1962

Letha Ward of Illinois was born on February 12, 1888, and died at age 74 years old in November 1962.
Letha Ward
Illinois
February 12, 1888
November 1962
Female
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  • 02/12
    1888

    Birthday

    February 12, 1888
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  • 11/dd
    1962

    Death

    November 1962
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    Letha Ward lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1888, in the year that Letha Ward was born, on August 7th, the body of a prostitute was found in the Whitechapel section of London. Martha Tabram had been stabbed 39 times - a possible but not confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper. On August 31st, the body of Mary Ann Nichols was found - stabbed and mutilated. On September 8th, the body of Annie Chapman was found - throat slit and disemboweled. On September 30th, Elizabeth Stride, also a prostitute in Whitechapel, was found dead from a slit throat. Within an hour, another body was discovered - Catherine Eddowes'. She was far more savagely murdered and it is thought that the Ripper had more time with her. Then, on November 9th, the body of prostitute Mary Jane Kelly was found in a boarding room in Whitechapel. Considered to be the probable fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims, Kelly's was the most savage of his murders.
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In 1893, at the age of only 5 years old, Letha was alive when on March 4th, Grover Cleveland became the 24th President of the United States. On July 1st, President Cleveland was operated on for a non-cancerous tumor in his mouth. He chose to have the operation secretly because he didn't want to worsen the financial depression that was occurring at the time.
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