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Afton Nance 1901 - 1986

Afton Nance of Sacramento, Sacramento County, California was born on December 8, 1901, and died at age 84 years old in February 1986.
Afton Nance
Sacramento, Sacramento County, California 95818
December 8, 1901
February 1986
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    1901

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    December 8, 1901
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  • 02/dd
    1986

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    February 1986
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    Afton Nance lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1901, in the year that Afton Nance was born, 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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In 1915, at the age of just 14 years old, Afton was alive when the Germans first used poison gas as a weapon at the second Battle of Ypres during World War I. While noxious gases had been used since ancient times, this was the first use of poisonous gas - in this case, lethal chlorine gas - in modern war. Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.
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