Audrey Plautt Maxwell

Brief Life History of Audrey Plautt

When Audrey Plautt Maxwell was born on 3 August 1918, in Henderson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Phillip L Maxwell, was 22 and his mother, Ruby Francis Lewis, was 19. He lived in Civil District 6, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1930 and Civil District 6, Henderson, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 8 July 1996, in Parsons, Decatur, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Darden, Henderson, Tennessee, United States.

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Audrey Plautt Maxwell
1918–1996
Evelyn Townsend
1920–2014

Sources (7)

  • Plant Maxwell in household of Philip Maxwell, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Audrey Plautt Maxwell, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Mr Plautt Maxwell, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"

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World Events (8)

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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1931 · The Parthenon is Built

In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built  giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for. 

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

Scottish: habitational name from a place in Kelso, near Melrose in Roxburghshire, the name of a salmon pool on the Tweed near Kelso Bridge. The placename is first recorded in 1144 in the form Mackeswell ‘Mack's spring or stream’ (Old English well(a)).

Irish: adopted for Ó Meisceall, see Miskell . This surname is common in Ulster.

Jewish: arbitrary adoption of the Scottish name, or Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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