When Samuel Clyde Jones was born on 19 February 1898, in Mounds, Pulaski, Illinois, United States, his father, WILLIAM E JONES, was 25 and his mother, Martha Viney Vinie Burress, was 25. He married Georgie Allie Blythe on 18 September 1919, in Lake, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in St. James Township, Mississippi, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Cotton Hill Township, Dunklin, Missouri, United States in 1930. He died on 18 October 1976, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 78.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
When W. D. Boyce was visiting London, he encountered a boy that helped him find his destination. The boy refused the tip that Boyce offered to him and told him that he was just doing his daily good turn. Being inspired, Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America to help teach young men how to have an attitude of service always. Since its foundation, The Boy Scouts of America has become one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States. Around 110 million people have been participants at some time in their life. The BSA was established to help young people make better choices in life and showing selflessness by serving the community.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
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