Nona Chaney was born on 25 June 1903, in Kentucky, United States. She married Omer Jack Smyth in 1920, in Estill, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 8 daughters. She lived in Irvine, Estill, Kentucky, United States in 1935 and Central City, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 27 April 1983, at the age of 79, and was buried in Crowe Cemetery, Estill, Kentucky, United States.
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
From 1904-1909, the Black Patch War took place. This was a war between about 30 counties in southwestern Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee. The war was mostly over the Dark Fired Tobacco that was produced in the area during this time.
In 1926, in central Kentucky, Mammoth Cave was discovered. It dates back to Mississippian times and consists of over four hundred miles of passageway. On July 1, 1941, the cave was made a National Park.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any one of several places in Normandy, Picardy, or Artois (France) named (Le) Quesnay or Quesnoy, or elsewhere in northern France named (Le or La) Chesnay or Chesnoy. The placenames all derive from Old French chesnai or its Normanno-Picard equivalent quesnai ‘oak grove’ (medieval Latin casnetum).
French: variant of Chanet, a habitational name from any of various places called Chanet or Le Chanet, from Latin canna ‘reed’ + the suffix -etum denoting an inhabitant.
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