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Bessie Hansford 1888 - 1987

Bessie Hansford of Macon, Bibb County, Georgia was born on July 1, 1888, and died at age 98 years old in March 1987.

Bessie Hansford

Macon, Bibb County, Georgia 31204

July 1, 1888

March 1987

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Bessie Hansford lived 26 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 98.

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In 1888, in the year that Bessie Hansford was born, on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good!

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In 1903, Bessie was merely 15 years old when 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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