Edith Alice Hemphill (1903 - 1961)

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Wintle Andrew Hemphill

Louisa Young Hemphill

Edith Alice Hemphill

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Wintle Andrew Hemphill

Unknown - Unknown

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Louisa Young Hemphill

Unknown - Unknown

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Stacy Irene (Montgomery) Hemphill

Mary Jeanne Hemphill-Tallant

Jack Hemphill

Tommy Hemphill

Tommy Jack, Tommy, JW, & Codi Hemphill

Mary Ann HEMPHILL and other Hemphill family

50th Wedding anniversary of Samuel and Belinda Axtell Dilley

Sunday School Class

Dilley Four generations

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In 1903, in the year that Edith Alice Hemphill was born, the United States Department of Commerce and Labor was created by President Theodore Roosevelt to control the excesses of big business. Renamed the Department of Commerce 10 years later, many departments concerned with workers were transferred to the Department of Labor at that time. Another spin-off, the Bureau of Corporations, became the Federal Trade Commission.

In 1925, at the age of 22 years old, Edith was alive when gangster Al "Scarface" Capone took over the Chicago bootlegging racket at age 26. Previously right hand man to boss Johnny Torrio, Capone took over when Torrio was shot and severely injured and decided to resign. The bootlegging and brothel organization was massive and when asked what he did, Capone often replied "I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want".

In 1930, when she was 27 years old, as head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, William Hays established a code of decency that outlined what was acceptable in films. The public - and government - had felt that films in the '20's had become increasingly risque and that the behavior of its stars was becoming scandalous. Laws were being passed. In response, the heads of the movie studios adopted a voluntary "code", hoping to head off legislation. The first part of the code prohibited "lowering the moral standards of those who see it", called for depictions of the "correct standards of life", and forbade a picture from showing any sort of ridicule towards a law or "creating sympathy for its violation". The second part dealt with particular behavior in film such as homosexuality, the use of specific curse words, and miscegenation.

In 1955, at the age of 52 years old, Edith was alive when on September 10th the TV show "Gunsmoke" debuted on CBS. It went on to be television's longest-running western. Matt Dillon, Chester, Doc Adams, and Miss Kitty became household names.

In 1961, in the year of Edith Alice Hemphill's passing, on May 5th, Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., made the first manned Project Mercury flight, MR-3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7. He was the second man to go into space, the first was Yuri Gagarin - a Soviet cosmonaut.