When Ruby Lanita Carpenter was born on 21 June 1927, in Benton, Mississippi, United States, her father, Boyd Ruby Carpenter, was 27 and her mother, Effie Lee Skelton, was 23. She married Floyd Collins Smith Sr in 1947. She lived in Beat 2, Marshall, Mississippi, United States in 1930. She died on 11 November 2012, in Collierville, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Valley Grove Cemetery, Michigan City, Benton, Mississippi, United States.
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13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Fredric F. Mellen was a geologist that was surveyed a clay and minerals project. While doing this he instead struck oil and started the oil industry in Mississippi.
United States military forces play a leading role against North Korean and Chinese troops in Korean War.
English (southern): occupational name for a worker in wood, Norman French carpentier (from Late Latin carpentarius ‘cartwright’).
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Zimmermann , French Charpentier , Italian Carpentieri , or cognates and equivalents in various other languages.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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