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Bessie Morse 1872 - 1967

Bessie Morse of Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana was born on March 20, 1872, and died at age 95 years old in December 1967.
Bessie Morse
Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana 46526
March 20, 1872
December 1967
Female
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Bessie Morse's History: 1872 - 1967

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    1872

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    March 20, 1872
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    1967

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    December 1967
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    Bessie Morse lived 21 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 95.
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In 1872, in the year that Bessie Morse was born, on May 22nd, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Amnesty Act of 1872. The Act restored full civil rights to secessionists, including about 150,000 former slaves who had fought in the Confederate Army. About 500 former Confederate sympathizers were not allowed their full civil rights.
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In 1884, at the age of merely 12 years old, Bessie was alive when on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.
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