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William "Bill" Del Monte (22 January 1906 – 11 January 2016) was an American centenarian who was the last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. He was 3 months old at the time the earthquake struck. According to what his family told him, his mother wrapped him up in a tablecloth and fled the house along with his father and four siblings, and escaped in a horse-drawn cart with fire burning around them.

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  • William Del Monte
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  • William "Bill" Del Monte (22 January 1906 – 11 January 2016) was an American centenarian who was the last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. He was 3 months old at the time the earthquake struck. According to what his family told him, his mother wrapped him up in a tablecloth and fled the house along with his father and four siblings, and escaped in a horse-drawn cart with fire burning around them.
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  • Del Monte, William
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  • 2016(xsd:integer)
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  • 1906(xsd:integer)
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  • San Francisco, California
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  • Marin County, California
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  • deceased-centenarian
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  • Male
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  • American
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  • William "Bill" Del Monte (22 January 1906 – 11 January 2016) was an American centenarian who was the last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. He was 3 months old at the time the earthquake struck. According to what his family told him, his mother wrapped him up in a tablecloth and fled the house along with his father and four siblings, and escaped in a horse-drawn cart with fire burning around them. In the 1920s he became a stockbroker. He was worth $1 million by the age of 23, but lost all his money in the crash of 1929. He married his wife, Vera, in 1935, and were married for over 55 years until she died in 1991. He died in Marin County, California, on 11 January 2016, eleven days shy of his 110th birthday. He had become the last known survivor of the 1906 earthquake after the death of Katherine Gomery on 27 December 2015.
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