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Bessie Reeves 1879 - 1978

Bessie Reeves of Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina was born on September 10, 1879, and died at age 99 years old in September 1978.

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Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina 28802
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In 1879, in the year that Bessie Reeves was born, on October 22nd, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric light bulb. Lasting 13½ hours before burning out, it used a "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires". He applied for a patent on November 4th, receiving the patent in January 1880.
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In 1890, at the age of just 11 years old, Bessie was alive when on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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Reeves, Catherine (Born May 22, 1853) Reeves, Mrs. Pearl L. C. (Born Apr 8, 1883) Reeves, Carl (Born 1906) Reeves, Vera Reeves, Henry (Born 1846) Reeves, Emma Reeves, John (Born c. 1811) Reeves, Colonel Carl Reeves, Myrtle Reeves, Alvah (Apr 13, 1904 - Nov 30, 1988)
Reeves, Eugene (Feb 13, 1909 - Dec 1981) Reeves, Smith (May 27, 1907 - Oct 1972) Reeves, Francis (Nov 6, 1902 - Jul 1966) Reeves, Eva (Dec 29, 1893 - Jan 1970) Reeves, Howard (Jul 16, 1890 - Feb 1967) Reeves, Walter (Mar 13, 1906 - Oct 1952) Reeves, Hilda (Aug 1, 1906 - Jul 15, 2003) Reeves, Carol (Jul 17, 1933 - Feb 25, 2009) Reeves, Parmelie (Jun 10, 1909 - Aug 1986) Reeves, Marie (May 7, 1913 - Oct 1973)
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