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Oscar Gentry 1909 - 1978

Oscar Gentry of Elkin, Surry County, North Carolina was born on November 8, 1909, and died at age 68 years old in February 1978.
Oscar Gentry
Elkin, Surry County, North Carolina 28621
November 8, 1909
February 1978
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    1909

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    November 8, 1909
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    1978

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    February 1978
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    Oscar Gentry lived 4 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 68.
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In 1909, in the year that Oscar Gentry was born, the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.
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In 1934, at the age of 25 years old, Oscar was alive when on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.
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