Martha Smith

Brief Life History of Martha

When Martha Smith was born on 9 September 1829, in Vermont, United States, her father, Jonathan Delano Smith, was 34 and her mother, Sophia Goff, was 29. She married Ammi Noyes on 17 March 1849, in Richmond, Chittenden, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.

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Family Time Line

Ammi Noyes
1828–1907
Martha Smith
1829–
Marriage: 17 March 1849
Caroline J. Noyes
1851–1941

Sources (3)

  • Martha Smith in entry for Caroline J Fuller, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
  • Martha Smith in entry for B. H. Fuller and Carrie J. Noyes, "Vermont, Vital Records, 1760-1954"
  • Smith in entry for Caroline J Fuller, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-2008"

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World Events (8)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1834 · Vermont Anti-Slavery Society is Formed

The Anti-Slavery Society of Vermont was established in 1834. 100 people from different towns were at the first meeting, with the intent to abolish slavery. 

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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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