Brief Life History of Ruth Elizabeth
When Ruth Elizabeth Barham was born on 22 April 1918, in Bloomfield, Scott, Missouri, United States, her father, William Jonathan Barham, was 41 and her mother, Rena Daewaell, was 37. She married Garland Ruby Robinson on 22 June 1935, in Bloomfield, Scott, Missouri, United States. She lived in Castor Township, Stoddard, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 31 August 1969, in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Bloomfield Cemetery, Castor Township, Stoddard, Missouri, United States.
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- Ruth E Barham in household of Rowena E Barham, "United States Census, 1930"
- Ruth Elizabeth Barham Scism, "Find A Grave Index"
- Ruth Barham in entry for Garland R Robinson, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places so called in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Kent, Sussex, and Devon. Most, for example those in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, are named with Old English beorg ‘hill’ + hām ‘homestead’. The one in Kent, however, is from an unattested Old English byname Biora, Beora (a derivative of bera ‘bear’) + hām.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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