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Orville Wells 1915 - 1987

Orville Wells of Cardwell, Dunklin County, Missouri was born on January 5, 1915, and died at age 72 years old in July 1987.
Orville Wells
Cardwell, Dunklin County, Missouri 63829
January 5, 1915
July 1987
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    1915

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    January 5, 1915
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  • 07/dd
    1987

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    July 1987
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In 1915, in the year that Orville Wells was born, the Superior Court in Fulton County Georgia accepted the charter for the establishment of the new Ku Klux Klan, succeeding the Klan that flourished in the South in the late 1800's. This iteration of the Klan adopted white clothing and used many of the code words from the first Klan, adding cross burnings and mass marches in an attempt to intimidate others.
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In 1920, when he was merely 5 years old, speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.
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