Brief Life History of Helen Mae
When Helen Mae Brick was born on 25 June 1918, in Alliance, Stark, Ohio, United States, her father, Floyd Elmer Brick, was 27 and her mother, Mable May Gamble, was 25. She married Hershel Claude Sumrow on 23 December 1939, in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States. She lived in Washington, Stark, Ohio, United States in 1930. She died on 29 October 2007, in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Grove Hill Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States.
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- Helen Brick, "United States Census, 1930"
- Helen Mae Brick Sumrow, "Find A Grave Index"
- Helen Mae Or Brick Sumrow, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1929 · The Great Depression Arrives
Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.
1949 · 1950s Texas Drought
One of most intense, costly, and devastating droughts ever recorded in the state of Texas. The entire state was in a state of drought by the summer of 1951. Less than 30-50% of the normal rainfall was received during this period. The state was plagued with dust storms similar to those from the infamous Dust Bowl. The drought ended in a destructive manner throughout 1957; storms, hail, tornadoes, and deadly floods.
Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Ó Bric ‘descendant of Breac’, a personal name from the adjective meaning ‘freckled’. Compare Brack , probably derived from breac as an epithet.
Welsh: from ap y Brych ‘son of a man called y Brych (‘the freckled one’)’. Compare 1 above.
English: topographic name for someone who lived at a place where birch trees grew, from a metathesized form of Middle English birke, or a habitational name from a place so named. Compare Birch , Britch , and Birks .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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