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Sophia Chastain 1899 - 1925

Sophia (Piske) Chastain was born on April 14, 1899 in Chicago, Illinois United States to Wilhelm Piske and Bertha Piske, and had siblings Wilhelm Piske, Paul Piske, Anna Sass, Minnie Warkenthein, Bertha (Piske), Louis Paske, and Hermon Piske. Sophia Chastain died at age 26 years old on June 6, 1925 in Chicago.
Sophia (Piske) Chastain
April 14, 1899
Chicago, Illinois, United States
June 6, 1925
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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  • 04/14
    1899

    Birthday

    April 14, 1899
    Birthdate
    Chicago, Illinois United States
    Birthplace
  • 06/6
    1925

    Death

    June 6, 1925
    Death date
    Tumor of the Brain
    Cause of death
    Chicago, Illinois United States
    Death location
  • Obituary

    SOPHIA HENRIETTA CHASTAIN Mrs. Sophia Henrietta Chastem, nee Piske, daughter of Wm. Piske, died May 30, at 4:45 p. m. of tumor of the brain. She was born April 14. 1889 and attended St. Lutheran school until her confirmation in 1903. In 1914 she married Mr. Alva Chastain. The couple made their home at 6242 Cornelia Avenue, Chicago. While visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred Blaesing suddenly became ill. She was rushed to the hospital where the seriousness of her djfease soon showed itself. The doctors hoped to save her life by an operation but it was of no avail. She was deurmus for the greater part of the the operation. Her age at the time of death was 86 years, 1 month and 1 day. She is mourned by her husband, her father, 5 brothers, and 4 sisters. She was buried at St. cemetery
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    Sophia Chastain lived 52 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 26.
    The average age of a Piske family member is 78.
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In 1899, in the year that Sophia Chastain was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1901, at the age of just 2 years old, Sophia was alive when the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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