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Retha Shiell 1899 - 1998

Retha Shiell of Jacksonville, Duval County, FL was born on November 24, 1899, and died at age 98 years old on May 4, 1998.
Retha Shiell
Jacksonville, Duval County, FL 32257
November 24, 1899
May 4, 1998
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  • 11/24
    1899

    Birthday

    November 24, 1899
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  • 05/4
    1998

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    May 4, 1998
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    Retha Shiell lived 25 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 98.
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In 1899, in the year that Retha Shiell was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1950, at the age of 51 years old, Retha was alive when in February, Joe McCarthy gave a speech alleging that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who worked in the State Department. He went on to chair a committee that investigated not only the State Department but also the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the Voice of America, and the U.S. Army for communist spies - until he was condemned by the U.S. Senate in 1954.
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