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Nellie Ruth (Matthews) Cox 1899 - 1991

Nellie Ruth (Matthews) Cox was born on May 14, 1899 in Illinois United States to Newman Hamlin Matthews and Anna (Swanson) Matthews, and had siblings Herbert Leslie Matthews Sr, Mable Irene (Matthews) Reeder, Ralph Waldo Matthews, Carl Newman Matthews, Iva Lenore (Mathews) Denton, and Bernice Elizabeth (Matthews) Blase. Nellie Cox married Ralph Sidney Cox on August 19, 1922 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, and died at age 92 years old in May 1991 in Speedway, Marion County.

Nellie Ruth (Matthews) Cox
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In 1899, in the year that Nellie Ruth (Matthews) Cox was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1924, Nellie was 25 years old when on January 21st, Vladimir Lenin, a leader of the Russian Revolution and the first leader of the Soviet Union died. He had survived two assassination attempts but had subsequent physical problems, suffering 3 strokes. He was in such great pain, it is said that he asked Stalin to poison him. The circumstances of his death are still disputed. He did oppose Stalin as the next leader - nonetheless, Stalin won a power struggle and ruled as a Soviet dictator until his death in 1953.
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Matthews, Nellie (Jul 23, 1901 - Jan 1980) Matthews, Nellie (Jan 17, 1873 - Aug 1969) Matthews, Nellie (Feb 12, 1924 - Aug 18, 1997) Matthews, Nellie (Feb 5, 1933 - Dec 1965) Matthews, Nellie (Dec 15, 1891 - Sep 1976) Matthews, Nellie (Feb 14, 1914 - Jul 29, 1989) Matthews, Nellie (Oct 6, 1905 - Jul 1981) Matthews, Nellie (Dec 7, 1899 - Dec 1974) Matthews, Nellie (Apr 22, 1916 - Sep 19, 2006) Matthews, Nellie (Sep 10, 1919 - Dec 2, 1987)
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Matthews, Mary (Born 1907) Matthews, Ruth (Born 1901) Matthews, Helen (Born 1902) Matthews, Becky (Born Jan 23, 1942) Matthews, Batley (Born Oct 4, 1880) Matthews, Joseph (May 16, 1914 - Apr 1973) Matthews, Thelma (Born Oct 28, 1912) Matthews, Wilton (Jun 10, 1910 - Apr 1974) Matthews, Daisy (Born Mar 9, 1876) Matthews, Guy (Born Dec 25, 1889)
Matthews, Samuel (Born Aug 8, 1880) Matthews, Wonda Faye (Born Mar 17, 1939) Matthews, Murble (Jul 17, 1929 - Jun 1986) Matthews, Donald (Mar 4, 1918 - Aug 19, 2004) Matthews, Edward (May 8, 1917 - Feb 17, 1996) Matthews, Earl (Apr 13, 1904 - Sep 1973) Matthews, Lucien (Jul 30, 1916 - Mar 1970) Matthews, Albert (Aug 9, 1905 - Sep 1975) Matthews, Ray (May 6, 1906 - Sep 1983) Matthews, Thomas (Jan 5, 1911 - Jan 1978)
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