When John Henry Eley was born on 24 October 1898, in Creighton, Knox, Nebraska, United States, his father, Gilbert Henry Eley, was 23 and his mother, Cora Belle Halstead, was 22. He married Jenny S Hale on 6 March 1922, in Valentine, Cherry, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Cortland, Cortland, New York, United States in 1930 and Sherman Township, Antelope, Nebraska, United States for about 10 years. He died in March 1979, in Orchard, Antelope, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Orchard Hill Cemetery, Orchard, Antelope, Nebraska, United States.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
English: variant of Ely .
German: from a vernacular form of the medieval personal name Eligius (see Eligio ), a Christian saint's name.
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