Brief Life History of Absalom
Absalom Schmidt was born on 14 March 1802, in Newmanstown, Millcreek Township, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States. He married Catherine Hippert on 13 March 1825, in Womelsdorf, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States. He died on 21 August 1873, in his hometown, at the age of 71, and was buried in Millbach, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Absalom Schmidt - Published information: Family genealogies: birth-name: Absalom Schmidt
- Absalom Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
- Legacy NFS Source: Absalom Schmidt - Published information: burial: August 1873; Millbach, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States
Spouse and Children
1802–1873 Male
1803–1881 Female
World Events (7)
1803
Age 1
1813
Age 11
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
Age 19
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto, Hans, Erwin, Gerhard, Klaus, Helmut, Fritz, Manfred, Wolfgang, Ewald, Gunter.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German smit, German Schmied ‘blacksmith’. This surname is also established in many other parts of Europe, notably in Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine, also Nord), the Netherlands, Hungary, and Poland. It is also found in Slovakia, Czechia, Croatia, and Slovenia, where it is more common in Slavicized forms (see below). In part, Schmidt is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ).
Germanized form of Czech Šmíd and Šmít, Slovenian, Croatian, and Slovak Šmid or Šmit, surnames of German origin (see above and Smid 2 and Smit 3).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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