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Bessie I Ledbetter 1912 - 2008

Bessie I Ledbetter of Piedmont, Calhoun County, AL was born on September 1, 1912, and died at age 95 years old on March 8, 2008.
Bessie I Ledbetter
Piedmont, Calhoun County, AL 36272
September 1, 1912
March 8, 2008
Female
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    1912

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    September 1, 1912
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  • 03/8
    2008

    Death

    March 8, 2008
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    Bessie I Ledbetter lived 23 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 95.
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In 1912, in the year that Bessie I Ledbetter was born, in October, former President Theodore Roosevelt was shot, but not killed, while campaigning for another term as President with the newly created Bull Moose (Progressive) Party. John Schrank was a Bavarian-born saloon-keeper from New York who had been stalking Roosevelt when he shot him just before a campaign speech. Shot in the chest (and showing the audience his bloody shirt), Roosevelt went on to give a 55 to 90 minute talk (reports vary on the length) before being treated for the injury. After 8 days in the hospital, Roosevelt went back on the campaign trail.
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In 1933, she was 21 years old when on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment said "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. South Carolina was the only state to reject the Amendment.
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