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Nov 10, 2009
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How did Annie Oakley die?

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Annie Oakley (born: Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee), the legendary trick rifle shooter, and her husband Frank Butler both died of natural causes in Greenville, Ohio, in November of 1926 (she on Nov. 3, he on Nov. 21). She was 65 years old, according to the Dorchester County Public Library in Cambridge, Md. (where they both lived from 1913-17).

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