White Slavery Law: The Mann Act Records

The Mann Act, also known as the White-Slave Traffic Act, is a United States federal law passed in 1910. Its original purpose was to combat human trafficking, particularly the transportation of women across state lines for prostitution or other "immoral purposes." It is also said The Mann Act prohibited the transportation of any individual across state or international borders for the purpose of engaging in not only prostitution, but also "debauchery." Today, it's used primarily to prosecute sex trafficking, child exploitation, and similar offenses

You Asked...Here's More on Aunt Bird
The ancestors are so much fun. Aunt Bird, as we called her when I was young, lived in Wichita, Kansas. She was actually my great Aunt, Great-grandpa Roy's sister. 

AncestryBlog, ancestry.com

She died at the age of 100 in Tulsa, OK., just short of her 101 birthday.  The Arrow Rock, Saline County, MO 1900 census has her born Dec 1891. She was not the ideal wife or mother, so it seems. But, she was a wonderful great-aunt. 

Aunt Bird, Bertha Tumbleson
Pratt (Ks) Union, 30 Apr 1914  

The Pratt Independent

Wed, Apr 29, 1914 ·Page 7

Since posting this podcast 14 March, people have asked for pics of Aunt Bird. Well, here she's seated on the far right at age 90. I was eleven at the time! She died 10 years later 18 Oct 1981, after I graduated from College. So I remember her well!

The Pratt Union, 29 Jul 1895, pg 4

Aunt Bird, age 90
Wichita Beacon 1971

Wichita, KS
18 Oct 1981

Charles and Bertha (Aunt Bird) did have a son, James Tumbleson. We will talk about The Murderers and The Murdered in a later blogpost. 

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