Brief Life History of Gladys Fern
When Gladys Fern Burdette was born on 1 October 1918, in Pleasant Hope, Polk, Missouri, United States, her father, Oscar Ralph Burdett Sr., was 23 and her mother, Cleta Caroline Mayfield, was 21. She lived in Mooney Township, Polk, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 21 April 2008, in Town and Country, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Huechuraba, Santiago, Chile.
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- Fern Burdett in household of Oscar R Burdett, "United States Census, 1930"
- Gladys Fern Burdette Leslie, "Find A Grave Index"
- Fern G Burdett in household of Oscar R Burdett, "United States Census, 1920"
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.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.
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Name Meaning
English: altered form of Burdett .
Altered form of French Burdet, a cognate of Burdin . Altered ending reflects the Canadian and American French practice of sounding the final -t.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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