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Irene's Family

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Isaac, James, & Luke McMurry, IN, 1890

Livonia Darnall, IN, 1880

James McMurry, Indiana Pioneer 1880

Men of Blount, Cullman, Jefferson or Tuscaloosa Co. AL?

Martha Ann McMurry Thompson

Leonard Elbert McMurry

John & Lucy McMurry Croft

Leacy & Hugh Stephenson

Beaty Sisters of Alabama

Martha Ann McMurry

Nancy McMurry Gamble

John & Lucy McMurry Croft

Mattie & Will Carmichael

McMurry's Homesteading in TX or OK

Charley & Frances Frey

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In 1903, in the year that Irene Mcmurry was born, two brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, flew the first powered heavier-than-air plane. They flew 4 times in one day - the longest flight lasting 59 seconds and a little over 852 feet. While the brothers had notified several newspapers of their attempt, only one - a local paper - covered it. After their 4th flight, a gust of wind caught the plane, turned it over, and totaled it.

In 1910, she was just 7 years old when Thomas Edison introduced his kinetophone, which he hoped would make "talkies" a reality. But the sound wasn't synchronized to the pictures and only 45 Kinetophones were made.

In 1933, at the age of 30 years old, Irene was alive when Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.

In 1940, at the age of 37 years old, Irene was alive when on September 16th, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, was enacted - the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. Men between 21 and 36 were required to register with their draft boards. When World War II began, men between 18 and 45 were subject to service and men up to 65 were required to register.

In 1976, in the year of Irene Mcmurry's passing, on August 4th, a mysterious illness struck an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. Within a week, 25 people had died and 130 people had been hospitalized. It was the first known instance of what came to be called "Legionnaires Disease."