Brief Life History of Columbia
When Columbia Bennett was born in December 1847, in West Virginia, United States, her father, William Bennett Sr, was 37 and her mother, Susannah “Susan” Griffin, was 34. She married Henry Alvey Smell on 17 February 1870, in Taylor, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Booths Creek District, Taylor, West Virginia, United States in 1900 and Allen Township, Noble, Indiana, United States in 1920. She died on 28 February 1932, in Taylor, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Albion, Albion Township, Noble, Indiana, United States.
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- Columbia Smell, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Columbia Bennett - Government record: Marriage record or certificate: birth-name: Columbia Bennett
- Columbia Bennett, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1854
Historical Boundaries 1854: Noble, Indiana, United States
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.
Name Meaning
English: from the medieval personal name Benedict , from Latin Benedictus ‘blessed’. In the 12th century the Latin form of the name is found in England alongside versions derived from the Old French form Beneit, Benoit, which was common among the Normans. The surname has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
German: from a short form of the personal name Bernhard .
Altered form of French Benet or Bennet or of some other similar (like-sounding) French surname. Altered ending reflects the Canadian and American French practice of sounding the final -t.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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