When Bessie Wilkinson was born on 25 August 1885, in Franklin, Simpson, Kentucky, United States, her father, James Perry Wilkinson, was 39 and her mother, Keziah Glover Wilkinson, was 39. She married George Duncan Laney on 30 December 1906, in Franklin, Simpson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in United States in 1949 and Simpson, Kentucky, United States in 1950. She died on 24 January 1973, in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Greenlawn and Shady Rest Cemetery, Franklin, Simpson, Kentucky, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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