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John Wallace Grant 

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Emmett Alonzo Grant
3/18/1876 - 4/27/1949

Ada Frances Nichols
4/16/1883 - 12/14/1960
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John Wallace Grant
6/24/1905 - 1/6/1936
John Wallace Grant was born on June 24, 1905 in Bascom, Jackson County, Florida and died on January 6, 1936 in Bascom, Jackson County, Florida. He lived to be 30 years old.

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Census4/23/1910 Bascom FL (Jackson County) 4 yrs old 
Ernest A. Grant (age 34), Ada F. Grant (27), John W. Grant (4), Bettie Hill Grant (2). All born in FL. Ernest and Ada have been married five years and have two children.  

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1 1906 An attempt to drain the Everglades and convert it to farmland begins.
12 1917 Seminole Indians become a Florida tourist attraction.
23 1928 The Tamiami Trail opens. It opens the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) in Miami, Florida to tourist. It also destroys many of the Seminole Indian waterways and hinders their economy.
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1 1906 Electrons are discovered by Thomson
1 1906 Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes
1 1906 The triode vacuum tube is invented
7 1912 The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people.
8 1913 Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant
9 1914 The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed
18 1923 Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
18 1923 Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
19 1924 Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
21 1926 Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
22 1927 The first television transmission was announced in England
23 1928 Big bang theory was introduced
31 1936 The first regular television broadcast happens in England
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3 1908 NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile
7 1912 White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out.
8 1913 NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures
12 1917 NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism.
14 1919 NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.
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4 1909 The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)
5 1910 Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area.
22 1927 Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
24 1929 Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
25 1930 Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
27 1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
28 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone!
29 1934 Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains.
29 1934 Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
30 1935 Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
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4 1909 The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe
9 1914 World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days.
12 1917 Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.
14 1919 The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.
15 1920 Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.


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Wallace Hill Grant
Born in Bascom, Jackson County, Florida on August 17, 1929 and died in Bascom, Jackson County, Florida on April 21, 2001. He was about 71 years old.

He married Sarah A. Vickers ...
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