Brief Life History of Winford Lot
When Winford Lot Smith was born on 17 December 1928, in Breckenridge, McLennan, Texas, United States, his father, Edwin Dilworth Smith, was 37 and his mother, Ettie Virgie Ferguson, was 37. He married Rita Mae Huber on 22 November 1953, in Stark, Ohio, United States. He lived in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1998 and Massillon, Stark, Ohio, United States in 2002. He died on 23 October 2002, in Canton, Stark, Ohio, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in North Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Stark, Ohio, United States.
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- Winfred Lott Smith in household of Edwin Dilworth Smith, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
- Winford Lott Smith, "Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
- Winford L Smith, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1997"
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1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1929 · The Great Depression Arrives
Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.
1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War
The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.
Name Meaning
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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