Brief Life History of Charles Elwood
When Charles Elwood Boughton was born on 8 April 1899, in Neosho Falls, Woodson, Kansas, United States, his father, Charles Boughton, was 49 and his mother, Mary Ella McCullough, was 34. He married Betty A in 1932. He lived in Polk, Missouri, United States in 1935 and Polk, Polk, Missouri, United States in 1940. He died on 9 December 1974, in Vernon, Missouri, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Nevada, Vernon, Missouri, United States.
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- Charles E Boughton, "United States Census, 1940"
- Charles E Boughton, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Charles Edward Boughton, "Find A Grave Index"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so named. Those in Cambridgeshire (formerly Huntingdonshire), Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, and Nottinghamshire are named from Old English bucc ‘goat’ or the Old English byname Bucca with the same meaning (see Buck 1) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’; those in Cheshire and Kent are named with Old English bōc ‘beech’ + tūn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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