When Lucy Jeanette Sheets was born on 27 December 1919, in Missouri, United States, her father, Daniel Harry Sheets, was 23 and her mother, Hattie Elizabeth Deatherage, was 24. She had at least 1 son with Warren Harding Steele. She lived in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1940. She registered for military service in 1943. She died on 13 June 1996, in Compton, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 76.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
New Jersey was the first state to ratify Prohibition, the short-lived constitutional ban on alcoholic beverages.
New Jersey contributed extensively to help the United States during World War II. Over 9% of all allied war-based construction contracts were handled in New Jersey, including aircraft carriers, battleships, destroyers, and other naval ships. In addition, almost 500,000 New Jersey residents enlisted in the war (roughly 10% of the state's population).
Americanized form of German Schütz (see Schutz ).
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