Brief Life History of Ila Bee
Ila Bee Howell was born on 29 December 1918, in Mississippi, United States as the daughter of Lonnie B Howell and Lavonie Saulsberry. She married William Harland Gilmer Sr. in 1903, in Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 29 November 1994, at the age of 75, and was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Sikeston, Scott, Missouri, United States.
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- Iler Bee Howell Gilmer, "Find A Grave Index"
- Iler B Gilmer, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
- Iler B Howell in entry for William H Gilmer, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1925 · B.B. King is Born
B.B. King was born on September 16, 1925, in Itta Bean, Mississippi. He was a famous American blues singer, electric guitarist, and record producer. In 1987, he inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1939 · First Oil Well in Mississippi Located in Yazoo County
Fredric F. Mellen was a geologist that was surveyed a clay and minerals project. While doing this he instead struck oil and started the oil industry in Mississippi.
Name Meaning
Welsh and English: in the Welsh border counties, from the Welsh male personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular since the Middle Ages particularly in honor of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king. The name may also arise from the Breton personal name Houuel, Huwel, Huwal, Howael, cognate with the Welsh name. Bretons were especially numerous in the eastern counties of England. See Powell .
English: perhaps from a Middle English personal name Huwel (spelled Howel), a shortening of Huwelot or Huelin (see Hewlett and Huling ), both pet forms of Middle English Huw (see Hugh ).
English: habitational name from Howell (Lincolnshire), from an uncertain initial element + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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