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Orpha Speed 1899 - 1988

Orpha Speed of Winnfield, Winn County, Louisiana was born on May 3, 1899, and died at age 88 years old in March 1988.

Orpha Speed
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Winnfield, Winn County, Louisiana 71483
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In 1899, in the year that Orpha Speed 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 1928, at the age of 29 years old, Orpha was alive when aviatrix Amelia Earhart, age 31, became the first woman to fly solo across North America and back in August. In June, she had been part of a 3 man crew that flew the Atlantic Ocean but since she had no instrument training, she couldn't fly the plane - she kept the flight log. The North American flight became one of her many "firsts" as a female pilot.
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Speed, Pauline (Jan 31, 1925 - Nov 14, 1988) Speed, Perley (Feb 2, 1889 - Jul 1962) Speed, Catherine (Oct 26, 1926 - Jan 4, 1998) Speed, Leon (Jun 18, 1913 - Jun 22, 1991) Speed, Lloyd (Nov 24, 1896 - Oct 1965) Speed, Pauline (Mar 27, 1917 - Aug 25, 2000) Speed, Daniel (Mar 15, 1927 - Jul 6, 2008) Speed, Helen (Nov 20, 1935 - Oct 7, 2007) Speed, Howard (Mar 3, 1937 - Feb 27, 2004) Speed, Dana (Aug 13, 1943 - Nov 1987)
Speed, Arthur (Sep 5, 1880 - Jul 1968) Speed, Norma (Jan 29, 1946 - Jul 19, 1994) Speed, Dorothy (May 3, 1920 - Mar 31, 2008) Speed, Adelaide (Jan 1, 1887 - May 1974) Speed, Elizabeth (Aug 5, 1895 - Sep 1975) Speed, Brianna (Jul 3, 2000 - Sep 14, 2001) Speed, Gerald (Sep 18, 1919 - Oct 15, 2007) Speed, Una (Apr 3, 1907 - Sep 1985) Speed, Jeanette (Nov 7, 1915 - Jul 29, 1999) Speed, Edna (Feb 26, 1899 - Mar 1974)
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