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Myrtle Rebecca Bennett 1897 - 1986

Myrtle Rebecca Bennett of Melbourne, VIC Australia was born in 1897 in Briagolong, Wellington Shire County to Thomas Baxter Bennett and Mary Louisa (Ray) Bennett. She had siblings Ada Daisy Bennett, Mary Elizabeth (Bennett) Dugan, Ella Ray Bennett, George Edward Bennett, and Rita May Bennett. Myrtle Bennett married Harold Clyde Towt in 1930, and died at age 88 years old on September 20, 1986 in Melbourne.
Myrtle Rebecca Bennett
Melbourne, VIC Australia
1897
Briagolong, Wellington Shire County, VIC, 3860, Australia
September 20, 1986
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Female
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  • 1897

    Birthday

    1897
    Birthdate
    Briagolong, Wellington Shire County, VIC 3860, Australia
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  • 09/20
    1986

    Death

    September 20, 1986
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Melbourne, VIC Australia
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    Myrtle Rebecca Bennett lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1897, in the year that Myrtle Rebecca Bennett was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1902, she was merely 5 years old when the Bureau of the Census was established. This was the government department that was a boon to family historians - it, even now, is responsible for taking the census and provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States.
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