101 - Sallie Benson - Hopkins, SC
N 33° 50.671 W 080° 49.111
17S E 516790 N 3744931
One cetenatian is interred in the Mt Moriah Baptist Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM8WMA
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 05/22/2010
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Sallie Benson
Big Mama
Mar 20, 1880
July 30, 1981
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Some notable events in the year 1880 from Wikipedia:
March 31 – Wabash, Indiana becomes the first electrically lighted city in the world.
October 15 – Mexican soldiers kill Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists.
November 2 – U.S. presidential election, 1880: James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock.
November 4 – The first cash register is patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio.
November 11 – Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne.
December 20 – First Boer War: The Action at Bronkhorstspruit results in a Boer victory over the British.
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Some Noatable Births:
June 27 – Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (d. 1968)
August 29 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, verified as longest-lived Canadian ever (d. 1998)
September 24 – Sarah Knauss, verified as longest-lived American ever (d. 1999)
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