Brief Life History of Neura Claystene (Nick)
When Neura Claystene (Nick) Smith was born on 12 June 1912, in Tylertown, Walthall, Mississippi, United States, his father, Pedro Zeno Quevedor Smith, was 42 and his mother, Henrietta Pittman, was 31. He married Edythe Ruby Chauvin in 1940, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States. He lived in Rural, Clarke, Alabama, United States in 1935 and San Diego Township, San Diego, California, United States in 1940. He died on 22 August 1962, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States.
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- Neura C Smith, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Neura Claystene (Nick) Smith - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Neura Claystene (Nick) Smith
- Neura C Smith, "BillionGraves Index"
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1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
1916 · Mississippi State Sanatorium for TB is Established
The Mississippi State Sanatorium is a hospital used for tuberculosis patients. This lasted from 1918 to the 1950s. The Sanatorium has now been turned into a museum.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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