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William Cooney 1890 - 1964

William Cooney of Illinois was born on June 30, 1890, and died at age 74 years old in November 1964.
William Cooney
Illinois
June 30, 1890
November 1964
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  • 06/30
    1890

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    June 30, 1890
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  • 11/dd
    1964

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    November 1964
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    William Cooney lived exactly as long as the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1890, in the year that William Cooney 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 1912, William was 22 years old when New Mexico became the 47th state of the Union in January. Previously a province of Mexico, then a territory of the United States and mostly populated by Native Americans and Mexicans, once it became a U.S. territory it was increasingly colonized by European-American settlers. Its population was over 327,000 when it became a state.
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