Minnie Belle Smith

Female18 October 1863–17 September 1870

Brief Life History of Minnie Belle

When Minnie Belle Smith was born on 18 October 1863, in North Greenfield, Logan, Ohio, United States, her father, Nathan Baker Smith, was 41 and her mother, Letitia Stevenson, was 35. She lived in Perry Township, Logan, Ohio, United States in 1870. She died on 17 September 1870, in North Greenfield, Logan, Ohio, United States, at the age of 6, and was buried in North Greenfield Cemetery, North Greenfield, Logan, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Nathan Baker Smith
1822–1899
Letitia Stevenson
1828–1897
Mary E. Smith
1847–1873
David Wesley Smith
1849–1874
Purley Baker Smith
1853–1880
Shepherd Wayne Smith
1858–1926
Lincoln Smith
1860–1863
Minnie Belle Smith
1863–1870
Mable Elizabeth Smith
1877–1877

Sources (5)

  • Minnie Smith in household of Nathan Smith, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Minnie Bell Smith, "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Minnie Belle SMITH -

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World Events (8)

1865

Age 2

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

1865 · The Assassination of a President

Age 2

"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

Age 3

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

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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