Brief Life History of Bessie Aletha
When Bessie Aletha Snethen was born on 12 June 1917, in Appleton City, St. Clair, Missouri, United States, her father, Forest Elmer Snethen, was 39 and her mother, Ivy Myrtle Snyder, was 26. She married Joel John Foster on 26 August 1938, in Butler, Bates, Missouri, United States. She lived in Monegaw Springs, St. Clair, Missouri, United States in 1940 and Rockville, Bates, Missouri, United States in 2009. She died on 27 February 2012, in Appleton City, St. Clair, Missouri, United States, at the age of 94.
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- Bessie A Snethen in household of Forest E Snethen, "United States Census, 1930"
- Bessie Snethen, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Bessie in entry for Everett D Ev Foster, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
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1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
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.
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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