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Mattie Ruby Gifford 1914 - 2008

Mattie Ruby Gifford of Waco, McLennan County, Texas was born on June 28, 1914, and died at age 93 years old on May 4, 2008.
Mattie Ruby Gifford
Waco, McLennan County, Texas 76705
June 28, 1914
May 4, 2008
Female
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  • 06/28
    1914

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    June 28, 1914
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  • 05/4
    2008

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    May 4, 2008
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    Mattie Ruby Gifford lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 93.
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In 1914, in the year that Mattie Ruby Gifford was born, in June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Yugoslavian national. Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to Serbia. Other major powers took sides - and World War I began: Austria declared war on Serbia; Germany on Russia and France; Britain on Germany . . . and on it went until most of the world was embroiled in the war.
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In 1924, she was just 10 years old when in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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