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Mary Purkey 1895 - 1984

Mary Purkey of Lapel, Madison County, Indiana was born on May 26, 1895, and died at age 89 years old in August 1984.

Mary Purkey

Lapel, Madison County, Indiana 46051

May 26, 1895

August 1984

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May 26, 1895

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1984

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August 1984

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Mary Purkey lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.

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In 1895, in the year that Mary Purkey was born, on March 15th, in County Tipperary, Ireland, Michael Cleary killed his wife of 8 years, Bridget, and burned her body. His defense was that his "wife" was a changeling that was left in his real wife's place when she was abducted by fairies. He was nonetheless convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter. He spent 15 years in prison.

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In 1903, when she was only 8 years old, the Ford Motor Company was incorporated in June after Henry Ford left another car company he founded in 1901 (which became the Cadillac Motor Company). He began Ford Motor Company with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors, two of whom (the Dodge brothers) later began their own car company. Henry Ford improved on assembly line techniques and has been so successful that his family still controls a very popular Ford line of cars and trucks.

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