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Willis Penn 1898 - 1980

Willis Penn of Spencer, Henry County, Virginia was born on November 10, 1898, and died at age 81 years old in March 1980.
Willis Penn
Spencer, Henry County, Virginia 24165
November 10, 1898
March 1980
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    1898

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    November 10, 1898
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  • 03/dd
    1980

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    March 1980
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    Willis Penn lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1898, in the year that Willis Penn was born, on February 15th, the USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana harbor. The reason for the explosion has never been found, but it killed 266 men. "Remember the Maine" became a rallying cry and precipitated the United States' declaration of war on Spain two months later - the beginning of the Spanish-American War. On December 10th, the war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The Treaty gave the U.S. Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam - for $20 million - and, temporarily, Cuba.
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In 1903, by the time he was merely 5 years old, the book The Souls of Black Folk, written by W. E. B. Du Bois, was published. Containing several essays on the African-American experience in America, much of the book was based on Du Bois' own life. The book was one of the very early works in the science of sociology.
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