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Lilla Puryear 1905 - 1988

Lilla Puryear of Detroit, Wayne County, MI was born on November 10, 1905, and died at age 83 years old on December 27, 1988.

Lilla Puryear
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Detroit, Wayne County, MI 48204
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November 10, 1905
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In 1905, in the year that Lilla Puryear was born, the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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In 1921, by the time she was 16 years old, on November 11th, the first burial was held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. The body of an unknown soldier - selected by Army Sgt. Edward F. Younger who was highly decorated for valor and received the Distinguished Service Cross in "The Great War" - was brought back from France (World War 1) and placed in the newly completed tomb. President Warren G. Harding officiated at the interment ceremonies.
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