When Beulah Irene Mitchell was born on 6 September 1919, in Johnston, North Carolina, United States, her father, Joseph Franklin Mitchell, was 42 and her mother, Lilly Clyde Bass, was 23. She married Billy Edward Strickland on 20 April 1936, in La Grange, Lenoir, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in United States in 1949 and Faison, Duplin, North Carolina, United States in 1950. She died on 10 September 2011, in Hampstead, Pender, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Wayne Memorial Park, Dudley, Wayne, North Carolina, United States.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
In 1920, the 19th amendment was ratified making it so that women could vote. This achievement finally gave North Carolina the freedom to vote they had been fighting for since 1897.
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.
English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael . See Michelson .
English and Scottish: nickname for a big man, from Middle English michel, mechel, muchel ‘big’.
Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill .
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