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Bertha Skeels 1899 - 1985

Bertha Skeels of Cattaraugus, Cattaraugus County, NY was born on March 17, 1899, and died at age 86 years old in June 1985.

Bertha Skeels

Cattaraugus, Cattaraugus County, NY 14719

March 17, 1899

June 1985

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March 17, 1899

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Bertha Skeels lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.

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In 1899, in the year that Bertha Skeels was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.

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In 1920, at the age of 21 years old, Bertha was alive when on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.

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