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Ruby Williams 1916 - 2005

Ruby Williams of Detroit, Wayne County, MI was born on December 12, 1916, and died at age 88 years old on January 30, 2005.
Ruby Williams
Detroit, Wayne County, MI 48223
December 12, 1916
January 30, 2005
Female
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    1916

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    December 12, 1916
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  • 01/30
    2005

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    January 30, 2005
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    Ruby Williams lived 18 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1916, in the year that Ruby Williams was born, suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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In 1922, at the age of merely 6 years old, Ruby was alive when on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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