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Mattie Clarke 1905 - 1987

Mattie Clarke of Petersburg, Petersburg City County, Virginia was born on May 3, 1905, and died at age 81 years old in April 1987.
Mattie Clarke
Petersburg, Petersburg City County, Virginia 23803
May 3, 1905
April 1987
Female
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    1905

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    May 3, 1905
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  • 04/dd
    1987

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    April 1987
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    Mattie Clarke lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1905, in the year that Mattie Clarke was born, 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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In 1918, Mattie was only 13 years old when on November 1, an elevated train on the Brooklyn line of the subway - driven by an inexperienced operator because of a strike - tried to navigate a turn at 30mph. The limit on the curve was 6 mph. The 2nd and 3rd cars of the 5 car wooden train were badly damaged and at least 93 people were killed, making it the deadliest crash in New York subway history.
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