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Ruth Knight Cauthen 1912 - 2007

Ruth Knight Cauthen of Lancaster, Lancaster County, South Carolina was born on May 9, 1912, and died at age 95 years old on July 14, 2007.
Ruth Knight Cauthen
Lancaster, Lancaster County, South Carolina 29720
May 9, 1912
July 14, 2007
Female
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  • 05/9
    1912

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    May 9, 1912
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  • 07/14
    2007

    Death

    July 14, 2007
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    Ruth Knight Cauthen lived 23 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 95.
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In 1912, in the year that Ruth Knight Cauthen was born, New Mexico became the 47th state of the Union in January. Previously a province of Mexico, then a territory of the United States and mostly populated by Native Americans and Mexicans, once it became a U.S. territory it was increasingly colonized by European-American settlers. Its population was over 327,000 when it became a state.
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In 1920, she was only 8 years old when speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.
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