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Roy W Sowers 1915 - 1991

Roy W Sowers was born on October 5, 1915, and died at age 76 years old on October 27, 1991. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Roy W Sowers.
Roy W Sowers
October 5, 1915
October 27, 1991
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  • 10/5
    1915

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    October 5, 1915
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  • 10/27
    1991

    Death

    October 27, 1991
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Roy W Sowers lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 76.
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In 1915, in the year that Roy W Sowers was born, the Germans first used poison gas as a weapon at the second Battle of Ypres during World War I. While noxious gases had been used since ancient times, this was the first use of poisonous gas - in this case, lethal chlorine gas - in modern war. Subsequently, the French and British - as well as the United States when they entered World War 1 - developed and used lethal gas in war.
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In 1964, at the age of 49 years old, Roy was alive when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.
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