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Lillah Watts 1890 - 1973

Lillah Watts of Durham, Durham County, North Carolina was born on August 4, 1890, and died at age 82 years old in May 1973.
Lillah Watts
Durham, Durham County, North Carolina 27703
August 4, 1890
May 1973
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Lillah Watts' History: 1890 - 1973

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    1890

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    August 4, 1890
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  • 05/dd
    1973

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    May 1973
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    Lillah Watts lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1890, in the year that Lillah Watts 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 1909, at the age of 19 years old, Lillah was alive when the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.
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