Brief Life History of Nina Fay
When Nina Fay Poole was born on 12 June 1918, in Elco, Alexander, Illinois, United States, her father, Charlie Poole, was 43 and her mother, Minda Ludella Crite, was 35. She married Sylvester Sam Maze in 1936, in Alexander, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Mill Creek, Union, Illinois, United States in 1935. She died on 5 February 1985, in Barnhart, Jefferson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Alton Township, Madison, Illinois, United States.
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- Nina Fay Maze in household of Sylvester Maze, "United States Census, 1940"
- Nina Fay Poole Wheeler, "Find A Grave Index"
- Nina Fay Poole in entry for Betty Jane Maze, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.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.
1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English pol(e), polle, poul(e) ‘pool, pond’ (Old English pōl). The name may be topographic, for someone who lived by a pool, or habitative, from a place so named.
English: variant of Paul .
Possibly an Americanized form of German Puhl or Pfuhl(e) (see Pool 4).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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