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Roy Thornton 1890 - 1980

Roy Thornton of Illiopolis, Sangamon County, Illinois was born on July 9, 1890, and died at age 90 years old in July 1980.

Roy Thornton

Illiopolis, Sangamon County, Illinois 62539

July 9, 1890

July 1980

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In 1890, in the year that Roy Thornton was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.

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In 1917, Roy was 27 years old when it is believed that a worldwide influenza pandemic began in Asia. By 1920, it is estimated that 50 - 100 million died throughout the world (3 - 5% of the population). In the U.S. alone, 500,000 perished from what came to be called the Spanish Flu or the 1918 flu.

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