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Vashti Willis 1909 - 2000

Vashti Willis of Hayes, Gloucester County, VA was born on November 23, 1909, and died at age 90 years old on June 7, 2000.
Vashti Willis
Hayes, Gloucester County, VA 23072
November 23, 1909
June 7, 2000
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Vashti Willis' History: 1909 - 2000

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  • 11/23
    1909

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    November 23, 1909
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  • 06/7
    2000

    Death

    June 7, 2000
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    Vashti Willis lived 19 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1909, in the year that Vashti Willis 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 1922, she was just 13 years old when on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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