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Ruby Underwood 1925 - 2011

Ruby Underwood of Blacksburg, Montgomery County, VA was born on February 18, 1925, and died at age 86 years old on March 19, 2011.
Ruby Underwood
Blacksburg, Montgomery County, VA 24060
February 18, 1925
March 19, 2011
Female
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  • 02/18
    1925

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    February 18, 1925
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  • 03/19
    2011

    Death

    March 19, 2011
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    Ruby Underwood lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1925, in the year that Ruby Underwood was born, 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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In 1952, at the age of 27 years old, Ruby was alive when on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
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