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Ossie Riggins 1897 - 1979

Ossie Riggins of Blackshear, Pierce County, Georgia was born on May 31, 1897, and died at age 82 years old in November 1979.
Ossie Riggins
Blackshear, Pierce County, Georgia 31516
May 31, 1897
November 1979
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Ossie Riggins' History: 1897 - 1979

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  • 05/31
    1897

    Birthday

    May 31, 1897
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  • 11/dd
    1979

    Death

    November 1979
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    Ossie Riggins lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1897, in the year that Ossie Riggins was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1901, at the age of merely 4 years old, Ossie was alive when shortly after beginning his second term, President McKinley was assassinated by the self proclaimed anarchist Leon Czolgosz. The last President to have served in the Civil War - he began as a private and ended the war as a brevet major - McKinley was a Republican. First elected in 1896, he was re-elected in 1900. Six months after the swearing in, McKinley was shot - and died of the gangrene that set in as a result.
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