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Bessie Sigmon 1877 - 1968

Bessie Sigmon of Stanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky was born on January 12, 1877, and died at age 91 years old in June 1968.

Bessie Sigmon

Stanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky 40484

January 12, 1877

June 1968

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June 1968

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In 1877, in the year that Bessie Sigmon was born, on March 2nd, the U.S. presidential election of 1876 was ended with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner. Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote in November 1876 but 20 votes in the electoral college were in dispute. An informal agreement was made in which Hayes agreed to remove federal troops from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana, ending Reconstruction in the South. So, on March 4th, Rutherford B. Hayes became the 19th President of the United States.

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In 1913, Bessie was 36 years old when ratified in February the 16th Amendment, establishing a Federal income tax, became law. Previously, customs duties (tariffs) and excise taxes were the primary sources of federal revenue. With the passage of the 16th Amendment, incomes of couples exceeding $4,000, as well as those of single persons earning $3,000 or more, were subject to a 1% Federal tax (that would be about $98,000 and $74,000 now). Rates rose to 7% for incomes over half a million dollars. Less than 1% of the population was subject to income tax.

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