When Lavousier Lawrence Smith was born on 8 April 1907, in Tylertown, Walthall, Mississippi, United States, his father, Pedro Zeno Quevedor Smith, was 37 and his mother, Henrietta Pittman, was 25. He married Ruby Lee Heinecke on 2 October 1930, in Fort Bend Land District, Texas, United States. He lived in Tylertown, Pike, Mississippi, United States in 1910 and Beat 4, Copiah, Mississippi, United States in 1940. He died on 22 September 1998, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Davis-Greenlawn Cemetery, Rosenberg, Fort Bend, Texas, 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 .
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