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Reuben Elmore Stivers 1917 - 1998

Reuben Elmore Stivers of Staunton, Staunton City County, VA was born on September 4, 1917, and died at age 80 years old on June 13, 1998. Reuben Stivers was buried at Culpeper National Cemetery Section J Site 185 305 Us Avenue, in Culpeper.
Reuben Elmore Stivers
Staunton, Staunton City County, VA 24401
September 4, 1917
June 13, 1998
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  • 09/4
    1917

    Birthday

    September 4, 1917
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    Unknown
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Navy Rank attained: CAPT Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii, Korea, Vietnam
  • 06/13
    1998

    Death

    June 13, 1998
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    Unknown
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  • Gravesite & Burial

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    Culpeper National Cemetery Section J Site 185 305 Us Avenue, in Culpeper, Va 22701
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In 1917, in the year that Reuben Elmore Stivers was born, on July 28, between ten and fifteen thousand blacks silently walked down New York City's Fifth Avenue to protest racial discrimination and violence. Lynchings in Waco Texas and hundreds of African-Americans killed in East St. Louis Illinois had sparked the protest. Picket signs said "Mother, do lynchers go to heaven?" "Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy?" "Thou shalt not kill." "Pray for the Lady Macbeth's of East St. Louis" and "Give us a chance to live."
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In 1945, he was 28 years old when on April 12th, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. At 1p, he was sitting for a portrait when he complained that he had a "terrific pain" in the back of his head and collapsed. A doctor was summoned and the doctor gave him a shot of adrenaline into his heart. It didn't help and he was pronounced dead at 3:30 p.m. A slow moving train took him back to Washington D.C. while thousands of mourners lined the tracks. He was buried at his home in Hyde Park, New York.
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