Brief Life History of Nellie Beatrice
When Nellie Beatrice Brooks was born on 26 October 1918, in Interlaken, Covert, Seneca, New York, United States, her father, William Seward Brooks, was 30 and her mother, Helen Mundy Bassett, was 27. She married Edwin Clarence Swick on 29 May 1938, in Romulus, Seneca, New York, United States. She lived in Covert, Seneca, New York, United States in 1920 and Romulus, Seneca, New York, United States in 1930. She died on 31 December 2016, in Charleston, Black River Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States, at the age of 98.
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- Nellie B Brooks in household of W Leonrd Brooks, "United States Census, 1920"
- New York State, Birth Index, 1881-1942
- New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.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: usually a variant of Brook , with excrescent -s. The optional addition of -s, with no grammatical function, is usually post-medieval, but some examples of the same person's name occurring with and without -(e)s have been noted as early as the 14th century in South Lancashire. The -es in such cases probably has neither a plural nor a genitival function, and the name means ‘dweller at the brook’, not ‘dweller at the brooks’. A plural sense cannot be ruled out elsewhere, but a non-grammatical -(e)s must also be considered a strong possibility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
Americanized form of German Brucks .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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