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Belle's father Sir John Lindsay. Dido Elizabeth Belle was born into slavery in 1761 [3] in the British West Indies to an enslaved African woman known as Maria Belle. (Her name was spelled as Maria Bell in Dido's baptism record.) [4] Her father was 24-year-old Sir John Lindsay, a member of the Lindsay of Evelix branch of the Clan Lindsay, who was a career naval officer and then captain of the ...
Belle married Peter Gunness on April 1, 1902. The following week, while Peter was out of the house, his infant daughter died of unknown causes in Belle's care. [6] Peter died eight months later due to a skull injury. Belle explained that Peter reached for something on a high shelf and a meat grinder fell on him, smashing his skull. [8]
Belle Starr was born Myra Maybelle Shirley on her father's farm near Carthage, Missouri, on February 5, 1848.Most of her family members called her May. Her father, John Shirley, prospered raising wheat, corn, hogs and horses, though he was considered to be the "black sheep" of a well-to-do Virginia family which had moved west to Indiana, where he married and divorced twice. [2]
Belle da Costa Greene (November 26, 1879 – May 10, 1950) was an American librarian who managed and developed the personal library of J. P. Morgan. After Morgan's death in 1913, Greene continued as librarian for his son, Jack Morgan , and in 1924 was named the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library .
Belle Boyd's grave. Boyd published a highly fictionalized narrative of her war experiences in the two-volume Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison. [31] She died of a heart attack in Kilbourn City, Wisconsin (Wisconsin Dells) on June 11, 1900, at age 56.
Why did no one help her? Fatal subway burning exposes New York City’s sad disconnect to humanity ... “did die in vain” when a deranged gunman shot and killed the 48-year-old Goldman Sachs ...
Belle Glade is about an hour west of West Palm Beach by car – a little over 40 miles away. This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Florida car crash in a canal leaves one survivor ...
Muudea Sedik (December 17, 2000 – c. February 13, 2024), known online as twomad, was a Canadian YouTuber and live streamer based in Los Angeles.Sedik created his main YouTube channel in 2017.