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Thomas Shockey 1879 - 1969

Thomas Shockey of Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia was born on June 5, 1879, and died at age 90 years old in June 1969.
Thomas Shockey
Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia 26836
June 5, 1879
June 1969
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    1879

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    June 5, 1879
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    1969

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    June 1969
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    Thomas Shockey lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1879, in the year that Thomas Shockey was born, on October 22nd, Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric light bulb. Lasting 13½ hours before burning out, it used a "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires". He applied for a patent on November 4th, receiving the patent in January 1880.
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In 1884, when he was just 5 years old, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.
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