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Caroline Gethers 1906 - 1979

Caroline Gethers of Moncks Corner, Berkeley County, South Carolina was born on October 20, 1906, and died at age 72 years old in June 1979.
Caroline Gethers
Moncks Corner, Berkeley County, South Carolina 29461
October 20, 1906
June 1979
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  • 10/20
    1906

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    October 20, 1906
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  • 06/dd
    1979

    Death

    June 1979
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    Unknown
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    Caroline Gethers lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 72.
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In 1906, in the year that Caroline Gethers was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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In 1914, she was only 8 years old when 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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