When Bertha Elizabeth Adkison was born on 4 July 1898, in Texas, United States, her father, Andrew Jackson Adkison, was 22 and her mother, Josephine Rouse, was 19. She married William Madison Horton on 5 May 1918, in Bosque, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 2, Bosque, Texas, United States for about 20 years. She died on 21 February 1978, in Clifton, Bosque, Texas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Mitchell Cemetery, Iredell, Bosque, Texas, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful "oil boom".
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Altered form of English Adkinson .
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