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Step back in time. Return to Detroit, Michigan - to the home of Earl Ripley, as he was passing away in 1926. Earl Ripley was a descendant of Robert Ripley of Yorkshire and Nova Scotia. His wife Rachel Phillips was of the New England Phillips family, great granddaughter of a United Empire Loyalist, and eighth great granddaughter of Elder William Brewster, Mayflower passenger. Earl and Rachel were my grandparents. Read how Henry Ford may have been indirectly responsible for Earl's death by lead poisoning. Read of Rachel's heroic and drastic steps to save her family in the face of Ford's failure to provide pension or insurance. And have a look at life on the assembly line at Ford, where Earl was a car painter. See the intrepid Model T Ford.
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