When Josie Syvilla Boles was born on 26 August 1897, in Big Creek, Forsyth, Georgia, United States, her father, Henry John Boles, was 39 and her mother, Epsie L James, was 35. She married Donald N. Allen on 13 October 1915, in Clayton, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States for about 20 years. She died on 18 August 1980, in Fulton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Forest Park, Clayton, Georgia, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Irish and Scottish: variant of Boyles .
English: variant of Bull with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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