Rhoda Ann Alice Smith

Brief Life History of Rhoda Ann Alice

When Rhoda Ann Alice Smith was born on 2 April 1869, in Rome, Floyd, Georgia, United States, her father, Wiley Marion Smith, was 27 and her mother, Catharine F. Smith, was 35. She married Adolphus Marion Mangum on 15 December 1886, in McLennan, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in District 940, Chattooga, Georgia, United States in 1870 and McLennan, Texas, United States in 1900. She died on 3 October 1939, in Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Brownfield, Terry, Texas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Adolphus Marion Mangum
1856–1919
Rhoda Ann Alice Smith
1869–1939
Marriage: 15 December 1886
Margie Pearl Mangum
1889–1961
Bessie Jewel Mangum
1892–
Effie May Mangum
1894–1980
Carl Homer Mangum
1896–1979
Alfred S Mangum
1898–1945
DeAlva Abodigah Mangum
1901–1981
Thelma C Mangum
1905–
Faye Verah Mangum
1906–1976
Lois Eleanor Mangum
1910–2004

Sources (18)

  • Rhoda Smith in household of Wiley Smith, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Alice Smith, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
  • Alice Smith, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"

World Events (8)

1870 · Texas Is Restored to the Union

Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

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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