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Emma B Williams 1899 - 1993

Emma B Williams of Des Moines, Polk County, IA was born on January 11, 1899, and died at age 94 years old on July 16, 1993.
Emma B Williams
Des Moines, Polk County, IA 50320
January 11, 1899
July 16, 1993
Female
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    1899

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    January 11, 1899
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  • 07/16
    1993

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    July 16, 1993
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    Emma B Williams lived 24 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 94.
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In 1899, in the year that Emma B Williams 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 1925, when she was 26 years old, 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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