Brief Life History of Jennie Della
When Jennie Della Roof was born on 30 April 1918, in Herrickville, Herrick Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Henry Jacob Roof, was 21 and her mother, Mabel G Esseltine, was 23. She had at least 1 son with Harold Frederick Merritt. She lived in Oswego, New York, United States in 1935 and Neversink, Sullivan, New York, United States in 1940. She died on 25 June 2011, in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Monticello, Thompson, Sullivan, New York, United States.
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- Della J Meritt in household of Harold F Meritt, "United States Census, 1940"
- Jennie D Merritt, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- J Della Roof in the 1920 United States Federal Census
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.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.
1944 · The G.I Bill
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Rolfe .
English: variant of Ruff .
German: from Ruffo, a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name formed with hrōd ‘fame, renown’. This surname is very rare in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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