Brief Life History of Newton Baker
When Newton Baker Watford was born on 9 April 1918, in Pine Apple, Wilcox, Alabama, United States, his father, John Wesley Watford, was 25 and his mother, Mattie Eliza Hunt Watford, was 23. He married Nellie Jewell Bodiford on 11 April 1938, in Etowah, Alabama, United States. He lived in Mobile, Alabama, United States in 1955 and Spanish Fort, Baldwin, Alabama, United States in 1984. He registered for military service in 1944. He died on 14 July 1997, at the age of 79, and was buried in Spanish Fort, Baldwin, Alabama, United States.
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- Newton B Watford, "United States 1950 Census"
- Newton D Baker Watford, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Newton B Watford, "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.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.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Watford in Hertfordshire or from the much smaller place so called in Northamptonshire. Both placenames may derive from Old English wāth ‘hunting’ or (ge)wæd ‘place for wading’ + ford ‘ford’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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