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Roy Sweeney 1909 - 1969

Roy Sweeney of Jerseyville, Jersey County, Illinois was born on August 13, 1909, and died at age 59 years old in July 1969.

Roy Sweeney

Jerseyville, Jersey County, Illinois 62052

August 13, 1909

July 1969

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Roy Sweeney lived 14 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 59.

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In 1909, in the year that Roy Sweeney was born, the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.

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In 1914, Roy was merely 5 years old when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.

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