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Helen Foster Gillespie 1929 - 2005

Helen Foster Gillespie of Woodruff, Spartanburg County, South Carolina was born on February 1, 1929, and died at age 76 years old on November 15, 2005.
Helen Foster Gillespie
Woodruff, Spartanburg County, South Carolina 29388
February 1, 1929
November 15, 2005
Female
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Helen Foster Gillespie's History: 1929 - 2005

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  • 02/1
    1929

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    February 1, 1929
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  • 11/15
    2005

    Death

    November 15, 2005
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    Helen Foster Gillespie lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 76.
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In 1929, in the year that Helen Foster Gillespie was born, on October 29th (Black Tuesday), the stock market crashed in the United States. Billions of dollars were lost and some investors committed suicide as a result, having lost their fortunes. This ushered in the 12 year, worldwide Great Depression.
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In 1938, at the age of just 9 years old, Helen was alive when on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."
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