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Melvina Dittoe 1890 - 1977

Melvina Dittoe of Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas was born on January 26, 1890, and died at age 87 years old in July 1977.
Melvina Dittoe
Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas 76308
January 26, 1890
July 1977
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Melvina Dittoe's History: 1890 - 1977

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    January 26, 1890
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    1977

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    July 1977
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    Melvina Dittoe lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1890, in the year that Melvina Dittoe 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 1916, Melvina was 26 years old when suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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