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Bertha Bondurant

Bertha Minnix Bondurant (2 March 1911-20 July 1990) was the wife of Prohibition-era bootlegger and gangster Jack Bondurant.

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Bertha Minnix was born in Franklin County, Virginia on 2 March 1911, the daughter of Anabaptist preacher Edgar Lee Minnix and his wife Emmie Flora. In 1931, she met the bootlegger Jack Bondurant, and they married in 1933; she gave birth to Emmie Lee Bondurant that same year. She lived to the age of 79, dying in 1990 and being buried in Martinsville.

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