Myrtle Bell (1908 - 1979)

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Sidney T Bell

Added: Jun 12, 2020

Renee Bell

Added: May 24, 2020

Eric Chalcroft Bell

Added: Mar 13, 2020

Eric Chalcroft Bell

Added: Mar 13, 2020

Vaucyleen Bell Duke

Added: Nov 10, 2019

Vaucyleen Bell Duke Gravesite

Added: Nov 10, 2019

Vaucyleen Bell Duke Gravesite

Added: Nov 10, 2019

John Riley Bell Gravesite

Added: Apr 05, 2019

Esther Mae (Smith) Blackburn-Bell-Hartley

Added: Feb 16, 2019

Rena Bell Lassiter

Added: Jul 09, 2018

Emma and Cread English gravesite

Added: Feb 11, 2018

James Carroll Bell

Added: Jan 03, 2018

Evelyn Bell

Added: Jan 03, 2018

Susanne Belle (Brummett) Bell

Added: Nov 02, 2017

Delbert Wiley Bell

Added: Nov 02, 2017

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In 1908, in the year that Myrtle Bell was born, unemployment in the U.S. was at 8.0% and the cost of a first-class stamp was 2 cents while the population in the United States was 88,710,000. The world population was almost 4.4 billion.

In 1914, at the age of just 6 years old, Myrtle was alive when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.

In 1934, Myrtle was 26 years old when on July 22nd, gangster John Dillinger was killed in Chicago. His gang had robbed banks and police stations, among other charges, and he was being hunted by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI - although many in the public saw him as a "Robin Hood". A madam from a brothel in which he was hiding became an informer for the FBI and, after a shootout with FBI agents, Dillinger was shot and died.

In 1953, when she was 45 years old, on July 27th, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. The Armistice was to last until "a final peaceful settlement is achieved". No peaceful settlement has ever been agreed upon.

In 1979, in the year of Myrtle Bell's passing, on November 4th, Iranian militant students seized the US embassy in Teheran and held 52 American citizens and diplomats hostage for 444 days. They were released at the end of the inauguration speech of the newly elected Ronald Reagan.