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Ruby Murphy 1914 - 1982

Ruby Murphy of Arlington, Shelby County, Tennessee was born on August 2, 1914, and died at age 67 years old in April 1982.
Ruby Murphy
Arlington, Shelby County, Tennessee 38002
August 2, 1914
April 1982
Female
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Ruby Murphy's History: 1914 - 1982

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  • 08/2
    1914

    Birthday

    August 2, 1914
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  • 04/dd
    1982

    Death

    April 1982
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    Ruby Murphy lived 5 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 67.
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In 1914, in the year that Ruby Murphy was born, in June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Yugoslavian national. Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to Serbia. Other major powers took sides - and World War I began: Austria declared war on Serbia; Germany on Russia and France; Britain on Germany . . . and on it went until most of the world was embroiled in the war.
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In 1925, she was merely 11 years old when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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