When Edna Smithson was born in November 1813, in Ohio, United States, her father, Tyre Smithson, was 30 and her mother, Secelia Murrell, was 23. She married Isaac Moon on 6 December 1832, in Clinton, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Clark Township, Clinton, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Clinton, Ohio, United States in 1880. She died in 1902, at the age of 89, and was buried in Martinsville, Clark Township, Clinton, Ohio, United States.
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English (Yorkshire): from Middle English smith ‘smith’ + -son, for a son of a smith.
Irish (Dublin) and Scottish: in Scotland and Ireland, sometimes adopted for Mac Gobhann, Mac a'ghobhainn ‘son of the smith’ (see McGowan ).
History: The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC was founded (1846) with a bequest from the English chemist and mineralogist James Smithson (1765–1829). He was born James Lewes Macie, the illegitimate son of Hugh Smithson Percy, Duke of Northumberland. His mother, Elizabeth Macie, a widow, was a direct descendant of Henry VIII; through her family James Smithson inherited a fortune.
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