Brief Life History of Flora May
When Flora May Smith was born on 4 March 1877, in Emporia, Lyon, Kansas, United States, her father, Henry Smith, was 30 and her mother, Mary Vertner, was 31. She married Alexander Ranson about 1896, in Almy, Uinta, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Reno Nevada Temple, Reno, Washoe, Nevada, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. She died on 29 July 1955, in Reno, Washoe, Nevada, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Reno, Washoe, Nevada, United States.
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- Flora M Ranson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Flora Smith, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"
- Flora May Smith Ranson, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1881 · Denver becomes State Capitol
On Nov 8 1881, Denver becomes the state capitol, due to an economic boom the city experienced in the 1880s.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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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