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Ruth Lightcap 1912 - 1979

Ruth Lightcap of Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania was born on January 6, 1912, and died at age 67 years old in December 1979.
Ruth Lightcap
Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania 19602
January 6, 1912
December 1979
Female
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  • 01/6
    1912

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    January 6, 1912
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  • 12/dd
    1979

    Death

    December 1979
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    Ruth Lightcap lived 6 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 67.
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In 1912, in the year that Ruth Lightcap 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 1925, by the time she was merely 13 years old, 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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