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Roy Lawson 1917 - 1999

Roy Lawson of Pekin, Tazewell County, IL was born on August 8, 1917, and died at age 81 years old on January 22, 1999.
Roy Lawson
Pekin, Tazewell County, IL 61554
August 8, 1917
January 22, 1999
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Roy Lawson's History: 1917 - 1999

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  • 08/8
    1917

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    August 8, 1917
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  • 01/22
    1999

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    January 22, 1999
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    Roy Lawson lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1917, in the year that Roy Lawson was born, Russian government offices were seized and the Romanov's Winter Palace was stormed in the Russian February and October Revolutions. The February revolution resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas and a coalition of the Parliament and workers parties taking control of the government. The October revolution resulted in Lenin and the Bolsheviks taking complete control.
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In 1920, he was merely 3 years old when speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.
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