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Charles Powell 1899 - 1985

Charles Powell of Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois was born on August 28, 1899, and died at age 86 years old in September 1985.
Charles Powell
Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois 61107
August 28, 1899
September 1985
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    1899

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    August 28, 1899
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    1985

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    September 1985
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    Charles Powell lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1899, in the year that Charles Powell was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1914, he was merely 15 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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