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Essie Murphy 1899 - 1980

Essie Murphy of Bruceton, Carroll County, Tennessee was born on April 22, 1899, and died at age 80 years old in January 1980.
Essie Murphy
Bruceton, Carroll County, Tennessee 38317
April 22, 1899
January 1980
Female
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Essie Murphy's History: 1899 - 1980

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  • 04/22
    1899

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    April 22, 1899
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  • 01/dd
    1980

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    January 1980
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    Essie Murphy lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 80.
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In 1899, in the year that Essie Murphy was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1938, she was 39 years old when on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."
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