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Nellie Turpen 1899 - 1974

Nellie Turpen of California was born on May 18, 1899, and died at age 74 years old in March 1974.
Nellie Turpen
California 92640
May 18, 1899
March 1974
Female
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    1899

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    May 18, 1899
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  • 03/dd
    1974

    Death

    March 1974
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    Nellie Turpen lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1899, in the year that Nellie Turpen 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 1922, at the age of 23 years old, Nellie was alive when on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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