Brief Life History of Effie Linda
When Effie Linda Smith was born on 9 May 1881, in Albion, Cassia, Idaho, United States, her father, George Browning Smith, was 37 and her mother, Harriet Schofield, was 32. She married John D. "Jay" Coffman on 30 July 1912, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in West Grange Election Precinct, Malheur, Oregon, United States in 1940 and Malheur City, Malheur, Oregon, United States in 1950. She died on 21 June 1955, in Malheur, Oregon, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States.
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- Effie L Coffman, "United States 1950 Census"
- Effie L Smith, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
- Effie, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
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World Events (8)
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1890
1890: Reconstructed Idaho Information; population 2,311
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
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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