When Serilda Catherine Smith was born on 14 October 1840, in Hart, Kentucky, United States, her father, Thomas Dixon Smith, was 37 and her mother, Mary Trent, was 32. She married William Thomas Alford on 9 April 1857, in Bowling Green, Warren, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Warren, Kentucky, United States in 1860 and Greencastle, Warren, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. She died on 16 October 1890, in Richardsville, Warren, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Green River Union Cemetery, Richardsville, Warren, Kentucky, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1850: Swan Creek, Warren, Kentucky, United States 1856: Green Castle, Warren, Kentucky, United States
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English and Scottish: occupational name denoting a worker in metal, especially iron, such as a blacksmith or farrier, from Middle English smith ‘smith’ (Old English smith, probably a derivative of smītan ‘to strike, hammer’). Early examples are also found in the Latin form Faber . Metal-working was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents in other languages were the most widespread of all occupational surnames in Europe. Medieval smiths were important not only in making horseshoes, plowshares, and other domestic articles, but above all for their skill in forging swords, other weapons, and armor. This is also the most frequent of all surnames in the US. It is very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below). This surname (in any of the two possible English senses; see also below) is also found in Haiti. See also Smither .
English: from Middle English smithe ‘smithy, forge’ (Old English smiththe). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a blacksmith's shop, occupational, for someone who worked in one, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Smitha in King's Nympton (Devon). Compare Smithey .
Irish and Scottish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac Gobhann, Irish Mac Gabhann ‘son of the smith’. See McGowan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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