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Bess Merriman 1909 - 2003

Bess Merriman of Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, TX was born on February 17, 1909, and died at age 94 years old on September 8, 2003.

Bess Merriman
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Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, TX 76067
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February 17, 1909
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Bess Merriman Bess Merriman (1909 - 2003)
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In 1909, in the year that Bess Merriman was born, the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.
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In 1914, she was just 5 years old when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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Merriman, Frederika (Oct 24, 1907 - Feb 23, 1995) Merriman, Evelyn (Feb 10, 1923 - Nov 18, 2006) Merriman, Carrie (Sep 10, 1892 - Jul 1969) Merriman, Robert (Mar 29, 1912 - Dec 13, 2009) Merriman, Earl (Nov 4, 1902 - Jun 1973) Merriman, William (Jun 15, 1903 - Oct 28, 1988) Merriman, Milton (Oct 9, 1914 - Sep 8, 2001) Merriman, Howard (Apr 17, 1914 - Jan 8, 1988) Merriman, Edwin (Feb 3, 1914 - Mar 1979) Merriman, Inga (Mar 31, 1917 - Oct 16, 2005)
Merriman, Clara (Feb 28, 1898 - Aug 10, 1991) Merriman, Cora (Apr 13, 1896 - May 1986) Merriman, Abbie (Jun 26, 1894 - May 1986) Merriman, Evelyn (Oct 19, 1904 - Jun 16, 1995) Merriman, Lena (Mar 28, 1877 - May 1970) Merriman, Esther (Apr 5, 1878 - May 1977) Merriman, Walter (Sep 22, 1910 - Oct 1984) Merriman, Wylie (Dec 20, 1887 - Nov 1967) Merriman, Stanley (Jan 28, 1901 - Mar 1981) Merriman, Elizabeth (Oct 28, 1924 - Jan 3, 2008)
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