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Leona Matthews 1899 - 1987

Leona Matthews of Merrillville, Lake County, IN was born on December 8, 1899, and died at age 87 years old on January 14, 1987.
Leona Matthews
Merrillville, Lake County, IN 46410
December 8, 1899
January 14, 1987
Female
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Leona Matthews' History: 1899 - 1987

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  • 12/8
    1899

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    December 8, 1899
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  • 01/14
    1987

    Death

    January 14, 1987
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    Leona Matthews lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1899, in the year that Leona Matthews was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1912, Leona was just 13 years old when New Mexico became the 47th state of the Union in January. Previously a province of Mexico, then a territory of the United States and mostly populated by Native Americans and Mexicans, once it became a U.S. territory it was increasingly colonized by European-American settlers. Its population was over 327,000 when it became a state.
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