When Wayn Jefferson Brakefield was born on 29 September 1918, in Ohio, United States, his father, Thomas Jefferson Brakefield, was 44 and his mother, Florence Mary Stephens, was 33. He lived in Jasper Township, Fayette, Ohio, United States in 1920 and Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 16 March 2004, in Montgomery, Ohio, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States.
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
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English (Kent): topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) bracken-covered open land’, from Middle English brake ‘thicket, patch of brushwood’ or braken ‘bracken, fern’ (corresponding to the northern bracken) + feld ‘flat open country’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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