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Lura Edwards 1884 - 1982

Lura Edwards of Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee was born on September 10, 1884, and died at age 97 years old in May 1982.
Lura Edwards
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee 37214
September 10, 1884
May 1982
Female
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    1884

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    September 10, 1884
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  • 05/dd
    1982

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    May 1982
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    Lura Edwards lived 26 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 97.
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In 1884, in the year that Lura Edwards was born, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.
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In 1894, by the time she was merely 10 years old, large reserves of oil were discovered on the Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma. Previously thought to be "useless" land - not even good for farming - the tribe had bought the land themselves. The discovery of oil made the Osage the "richest group of people in the world" at the time.
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