Brief Life History of Robert Nicholas
When Robert Nicholas Smith was born on 22 May 1834, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Dr. William Boyce Smith Sr, was 31 and his mother, Sarah Ann Lowery, was 24. He married Amanda Frances Turner on 10 December 1854, in Winston, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Union Township, Benton, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Lindsey Township, Benton, Missouri, United States in 1900. He died on 11 April 1901, in Benton, Missouri, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in United States.
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- R N Smith, "United States Census, 1900"
- Robert N. Smith, "Mississippi, Marriages, 1800-1911"
- Robert Nicholas Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
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1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1835
Historical Boundaries 1835: Benton, Missouri, United States
1861
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
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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