Brief Life History of David Simpson
When David Simpson Smith was born on 12 February 1827, in Fayette, West Virginia, United States, his father, William Theophilus Smith, was 24 and his mother, Anna Jordan, was 23. He married Jane Cason on 19 April 1849, in Madison, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 12 Crestones, Huerfano, Colorado, United States in 1900 and Election Precinct 14 Niggerhead, Huerfano, Colorado, United States in 1910. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 18 February 1914, in Gardner, Huerfano, Colorado, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Rosita Cemetery, Rosita, Custer, Colorado, United States.
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- David S Smith, "United States Census, 1870"
- D. S. Smith & Sarah Evelyn Fuel, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006" (Bradford, Huerfano Co.: 1892)
- David S. Smith, "BillionGraves Index"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1846
Historical Boundaries: 1846: Madison, Iowa Territory, United States 1846: Madison, Iowa, United States
1854
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
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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