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Victoria Yankey 1879 - 1971

Victoria Yankey of Criders, Rockingham County, Virginia was born on March 4, 1879, and died at age 92 years old in March 1971.
Victoria Yankey
Criders, Rockingham County, Virginia 22820
March 4, 1879
March 1971
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    1879

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    March 4, 1879
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    1971

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    March 1971
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    Victoria Yankey lived 19 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 91.
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In 1879, in the year that Victoria Yankey 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, at the age of just 5 years old, Victoria was alive when 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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