Brief Life History of Wilma Claudine
When Wilma Claudine Copley was born in 1919, in Nebraska, United States, her father, Harold Fliece Copley, was 35 and her mother, Maymie Lee Garner, was 37. She married William Lloyd Jenkins on 26 December 1938, in Phelps, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Danbury, Red Willow, Nebraska, United States in 1920 and Spring Creek Township, Dent, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died in 2008, in Rolla, Phelps, Missouri, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Salem, Dent, Missouri, United States.
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- Claud E Copley in household of Harold F Copley, "United States Census, 1920"
- Wilma Claudine Copley, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Claudine Wilma Jenkins, "Missouri, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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World Events (8)
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.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.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places called Copley, for example in County Durham, Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, from the Old English personal name Coppa (apparently a byname for a tall man) or from copp ‘hilltop’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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