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Bessie M Toops 1884 - 1966

Bessie M Toops of Bowen, Hancock County, IL was born on November 6, 1884, and died at age 81 years old on October 15, 1966.
Bessie M Toops
Bowen, Hancock County, IL 62316
November 6, 1884
October 15, 1966
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  • 11/6
    1884

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    November 6, 1884
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  • 10/15
    1966

    Death

    October 15, 1966
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    Bessie M Toops lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1884, in the year that Bessie M Toops was born, on August 5th, the cornerstone for the base of the Statue of Liberty - a gift from the people of France - was laid. 120,000 people - most donations were $1 - donated to the completion of the base. An 1883 poem by Emma Lazarus was also written to raise funds. That poem was included in the base of the statue and is well known today. The most famous phrase: "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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In 1910, by the time she was 26 years old, the Mann Act, also called the White-Slave Traffic Act, was signed into law. Its purpose was to make it a felony to engage in interstate or foreign commerce transport of "any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose". But the language was so broad that it was also applied to consensual sex between adults when wished.
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