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Edith May (Burness) Ross 1891 - 1932

Edith May (Burness) Ross of South Melbourne, Port Phillip City County, VIC Australia was born on May 20, 1891 in Collingwood, City of Yarra County to William Burness and Mary Ann (Matthews) Burness. She had siblings Nelly Burness, Mary Burness, Annie Burness, Emma Burness, James Edward Wil Burness, Alice Burness, Olive Irene Burness, Vera Elizabeth Burness, Ruby Pearl Burness, George Joseph Burness, and William John Burness. She married William Ross in 1912, and had children Edna May Ross, Muriel Annie Ross, William John Ross, and Rose Florence Ross. Edith Ross died at age 41 years old on October 24, 1932 in South Melbourne, Port Phillip City County.

Edith May (Burness) Ross
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South Melbourne, Port Phillip City County, VIC 3205, Australia
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May 20, 1891
Collingwood, City of Yarra County, VIC, 3066, Australia
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October 24, 1932
South Melbourne, Port Phillip City County, VIC, 3205, Australia
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    May 20, 1891
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    Collingwood, City of Yarra County, VIC 3066, Australia
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    Carlton, Australia
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    Edith May (Burness) Ross lived 35 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 41.
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In 1891, in the year that Edith May (Burness) Ross was born, James Naismith, at the Springfield Massachusetts YMCA, invented the game of basketball. Originally using two peach baskets and a soccer ball, he created the game to keep his students active during the long, harsh New England winters.
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In 1905, at the age of merely 14 years old, Edith was alive when the Niagara Falls conference was held in Fort Erie, Ontario. Led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, a group of African-American men met in opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Booker T. Washington had been calling for policies of accommodation and conciliation and these two men, along with the others who attended the conference, felt that this was accomplishing nothing. The group was the precursor to the NAACP.
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Burness, Louis (Jan 30, 1889 - Sep 1970) Burness, Mollie (May 15, 1898 - Dec 1971) Burness, Esther (Feb 22, 1905 - Mar 14, 1999) Burness, Joseph (Sep 12, 1907 - Feb 28, 1990) Burness, Leon (Dec 17, 1885 - Sep 21, 1989) Burness, Frances (Nov 16, 1915 - Mar 1996) Burness, Manuel (Apr 18, 1914 - Aug 13, 1996) Burness, Elizabeth (Jan 15, 1892 - Nov 1982) Burness, Richard (Apr 20, 1929 - Jan 31, 1999) Burness, Eleanore (Sep 13, 1925 - Sep 10, 1989)
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