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Willie Helen (Earvin) Morris

Virginia June Eastvold

Emma (Morris) Simunaci

Emma (Morris) Simunaci

Thomas Newton Morris

Thomas Newton Morris

Sarah Jane Trueblood Morris at Harristown, Washington County, IN

Boyd Morris

Mr. & Mrs. James G. Hibbard

Mamie Catherine (Morris) Schelsky

Mamie Catherine (Morris) Schelsky Family

Mamie Catherine (Morris) Schelsky

James E Morris, Jr.

Dianne Morris

Marriage License , 1936

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In 1913, in the year that Lela M Morris was born, the 17th Amendment, establishing the direct election of U.S. Senators, was adopted. Previously, Senators were elected by state legislatures. As early as 1826, a call to elect senators through popular vote was championed and previous to the 17th amendment, two states had already changed their process. Governors are still able to appoint senators to vacant seats until an election can be held.

In 1933, at the age of 20 years old, Lela 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 1959, at the age of 46 years old, Lela was alive when on January 3rd, Alaska became the 49th state of the United States and the first state not a part of the contiguous United States. The flag was changed to display 49 stars.

In 1980, when she was 67 years old, on December 8th, ex-Beatle John Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in front of his home - the Dakota - in New York City. Chapman was found guilty of murder and still remains in jail.

In 1991, in the year of Lela M Morris's passing, on December 25th, the Soviet Union flag was lowered and replaced by the Russian tricolor flag. It was the end of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union and Boris Yeltsin became President of the Russian Republic.