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Ruth E Thompson 1914 - 2003

Ruth E Thompson of Edinburg, Hidalgo County, TX was born on April 29, 1914, and died at age 88 years old on March 2, 2003.
Ruth E Thompson
Edinburg, Hidalgo County, TX 78539
April 29, 1914
March 2, 2003
Female
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  • 04/29
    1914

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    April 29, 1914
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  • 03/2
    2003

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    March 2, 2003
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    Ruth E Thompson lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1914, in the year that Ruth E Thompson was born, 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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In 1922, at the age of just 8 years old, Ruth 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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