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Dora Gathings 1902 - 1982

Dora Gathings of Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina was born on November 19, 1902, and died at age 79 years old in January 1982.
Dora Gathings
Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina 28655
November 19, 1902
January 1982
Female
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    1902

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    November 19, 1902
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  • 01/dd
    1982

    Death

    January 1982
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    Dora Gathings lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1902, in the year that Dora Gathings was born, the Aswan Low Dam (the old Aswan Dam) began construction in Egypt in 1899 and was completed in 1902 - making it the largest masonry dam in the world at the time. The dam was built on the Nile River in order to conserve water and regulate flooding, allowing for population increase along the Nile.
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In 1925, Dora was 23 years old when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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