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Rola M Ward 1914 - 2004

Rola M Ward of Mobile, Mobile County, AL was born on March 11, 1914, and died at age 90 years old on July 29, 2004.
Rola M Ward
Mobile, Mobile County, AL 36652
March 11, 1914
July 29, 2004
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  • 03/11
    1914

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    March 11, 1914
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  • 07/29
    2004

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    July 29, 2004
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    Rola M Ward lived 18 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1914, in the year that Rola M Ward was born, 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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In 1922, at the age of merely 8 years old, Rola 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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