When Clara Elizabeth Smith was born on 19 January 1874, in Iron City, Decatur, Georgia, United States, her father, Lovett Bryan Smith, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Ann Martin Gause, was 22. She married Henry Franklin Alday on 15 August 1890, in Decatur, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Donalsonville, Decatur, Georgia, United States in 1900 and District 1431, Decatur, Georgia, United States in 1910. She died on 22 September 1912, at the age of 38, and was buried in Friendship Cemetery, Donalsonville, Seminole, Georgia, United States.
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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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