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Doreatha Polk 1906 - 1979

Doreatha Polk of Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge County, Louisiana was born on March 9, 1906, and died at age 73 years old in September 1979.
Doreatha Polk
Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge County, Louisiana 70802
March 9, 1906
September 1979
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Doreatha Polk's History: 1906 - 1979

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  • 03/9
    1906

    Birthday

    March 9, 1906
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  • 09/dd
    1979

    Death

    September 1979
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    Doreatha Polk lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 73.
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In 1906, in the year that Doreatha Polk was born, English biochemist Frederick Hopkins concluded that vitamins are essential to the human body and that a lack of vitamins caused scurvy and rickets. Scurvy and rickets were both huge problems in sailors that were at sea for extended time and the addition of vitamin C, vitamin D, and calcium in their diets helped eradicate the problem.
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In 1914, at the age of just 8 years old, Doreatha was alive when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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