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Ethel Smith 1897 - 1975

Ethel Smith of Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee was born on April 26, 1897, and died at age 78 years old in August 1975.
Ethel Smith
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee 38108
April 26, 1897
August 1975
Female
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    1897

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    April 26, 1897
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  • 08/dd
    1975

    Death

    August 1975
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    Ethel Smith lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1897, in the year that Ethel Smith was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1910, at the age of merely 13 years old, Ethel was alive when the Mann Act, also called the White-Slave Traffic Act, was signed into law. Its purpose was to make it a felony to engage in interstate or foreign commerce transport of "any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose". But the language was so broad that it was also applied to consensual sex between adults when wished.
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