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Cartha Swilley 1901 - 1979

Cartha Swilley of Winter Haven, Polk County, Florida was born on April 14, 1901, and died at age 78 years old in December 1979.
Cartha Swilley
Winter Haven, Polk County, Florida 33880
April 14, 1901
December 1979
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Cartha Swilley's History: 1901 - 1979

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  • 04/14
    1901

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    April 14, 1901
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  • 12/dd
    1979

    Death

    December 1979
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    Cartha Swilley lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1901, in the year that Cartha Swilley was born, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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In 1922, at the age of 21 years old, Cartha was alive when on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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