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Emma Shanks 1890 - 1976

Emma Shanks of Olmsted Falls, Cuyahoga County, Ohio was born on December 23, 1890, and died at age 85 years old in November 1976.

Emma Shanks

Olmsted Falls, Cuyahoga County, Ohio 44138

December 23, 1890

November 1976

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In 1890, in the year that Emma Shanks 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 1902, at the age of merely 12 years old, Emma was alive when the Aswan Low Dam (the old Aswan Dam) began construction in Egypt in 1899 and was completed in 1902 - making it the largest masonry dam in the world at the time. The dam was built on the Nile River in order to conserve water and regulate flooding, allowing for population increase along the Nile.

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