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Homer Ritchey 1890 - 1981

Homer Ritchey of Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania was born on August 18, 1890, and died at age 91 years old in October 1981.
Homer Ritchey
Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania 16603
August 18, 1890
October 1981
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Homer Ritchey's History: 1890 - 1981

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  • 08/18
    1890

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    August 18, 1890
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  • 10/dd
    1981

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    October 1981
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    Homer Ritchey lived 18 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 91.
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In 1890, in the year that Homer Ritchey 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 1904, he was just 14 years old when the United States acquired the Panama Canal Zone. Now an unincorporated territory of the U.S., the Canal Zone had been previously held by the French, who were constructing a canal. The U.S. took over the construction of the Panama Canal and it was finally finished in 1914, when it was opened to commercial shipping. The United States held the Canal Zone until 1979.
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