Brief Life History of Charles Leroy or Charlie
When Charles Leroy or Charlie Smith was born on 4 August 1890, in Lincoln, Mississippi, United States, his father, John Allen Quitman Smith, was 31 and his mother, Nancy Matilda Lofton, was 28. He married Mary A. Chisholm on 4 June 1916, in Franklin, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Beat 4, Franklin, Mississippi, United States in 1930 and Beat 5, Franklin, Mississippi, United States in 1940. He died on 28 September 1959, at the age of 69, and was buried in Ramah Baptist Church Cemetery, McCall Creek, Franklin, Mississippi, United States.
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- Charlie Smith, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Charlie Smith - birth: 4 August 1890; Mississippi, United States
- Charley Smith, "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop
When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
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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