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Emma Poston 1890 - 1973

Emma Poston of Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan was born on October 6, 1890, and died at age 83 years old in November 1973.
Emma Poston
Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan 49502
October 6, 1890
November 1973
Female
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Emma Poston's History: 1890 - 1973

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    1890

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    October 6, 1890
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  • 11/dd
    1973

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    November 1973
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    Emma Poston lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 83.
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In 1890, in the year that Emma Poston was born, 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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In 1906, at the age of 16 years old, Emma was alive when English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concluded that vitamins are essential to the human body and that a lack of vitamins caused scurvy and rickets. Scurvy and rickets were both huge problems in sailors that were at sea for extended time and the addition of vitamin C, vitamin D, and calcium in their diets helped eradicate the problem.
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