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Rosa Simpson 1888 - 1976

Rosa Simpson of Buena Vista, Buena Vista City County, Virginia was born on September 15, 1888, and died at age 87 years old in January 1976.
Rosa Simpson
Buena Vista, Buena Vista City County, Virginia 24416
September 15, 1888
January 1976
Female
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  • 09/15
    1888

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    September 15, 1888
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  • 01/dd
    1976

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    January 1976
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    Rosa Simpson lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1888, in the year that Rosa Simpson was born, on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good!
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In 1943, when she was 55 years old, on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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