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Rilee Michelle Lester

Charlie Bailey family

Charlie Rae Bailey's children

Henry Lester gravesite

Ethyl Lester & Mable Blake

Kenna M Lester

Kenna M Lester

Lovicey Hatfield gravesite

Samuel & Bessie (Hatfield) Stokes Grave, West Virginia

Isabella (Lester) Hatfield Grave, West Virginia

Wille Hatfield Grave, West Virginia

Emsley & Harriet (Lester) Morgan, WV

Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Lester Morgan

Hannah Williams Lester, WV

Plesant Bailey Lester, WV

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In 1891, in the year that Herbert Lester was born, on March 14th, a lynch mob stormed the Old Parish Prison. The mob lynched 11 of the 19 Italians who were arrested for - but found to be innocent of - the murder of New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy.

In 1929, by the time he was 38 years old, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre happened on February 14th. In Chicago, seven men from the North Side Irish gang were gunned down by Al Capone's South Side Italian gang at the garage at 2122 North Clark Street. Al Capone was making a successful move to take over Chicago's organized crime. But the St. Valentine's Day massacre also resulted in a public outcry against all gangsters.

In 1938, Herbert was 47 years old 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."

In 1970, when he was 79 years old, on April 10th, Paul McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles. (John Lennon had previously told the band that he was leaving but hadn't publicly announced it.) By the end of the year, each Beatle had his own album.

In 1982, in the year of Herbert Lester's passing, on June 30th, time ran out on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The Amendment had only received 35 of the necessary 38 state ratifications. First sent to the states in 1972, the Amendment stated that "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex".