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Myrtle Laughhunn 1888 - 1979

Myrtle Laughhunn of Centralia, Marion County, Illinois was born on August 13, 1888, and died at age 90 years old in May 1979.
Myrtle Laughhunn
Centralia, Marion County, Illinois 62801
August 13, 1888
May 1979
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Myrtle Laughhunn's History: 1888 - 1979

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    1888

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    August 13, 1888
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  • 05/dd
    1979

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    May 1979
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    Myrtle Laughhunn lived 25 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1888, in the year that Myrtle Laughhunn was born, on August 7th, the body of a prostitute was found in the Whitechapel section of London. Martha Tabram had been stabbed 39 times - a possible but not confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper. On August 31st, the body of Mary Ann Nichols was found - stabbed and mutilated. On September 8th, the body of Annie Chapman was found - throat slit and disemboweled. On September 30th, Elizabeth Stride, also a prostitute in Whitechapel, was found dead from a slit throat. Within an hour, another body was discovered - Catherine Eddowes'. She was far more savagely murdered and it is thought that the Ripper had more time with her. Then, on November 9th, the body of prostitute Mary Jane Kelly was found in a boarding room in Whitechapel. Considered to be the probable fifth, and last, of Jack the Ripper's victims, Kelly's was the most savage of his murders.
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In 1919, at the age of 31 years old, Myrtle was alive when in the summer and early autumn, race riots erupted in 26 U.S. cities, resulting in hundreds of deaths and even more people being badly hurt. In most cases, African-Americans were the victims. It was called the "Red Summer". Men who were returning from World War I needed jobs and there was competition for those jobs among the races. Tension was heightened by the use by many companies of blacks as strikebreakers.
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