Sarah Ann Smith

Brief Life History of Sarah Ann

When Sarah Ann Smith was born in March 1838, in Tennessee, United States, her father, David Smith, was 23 and her mother, Ann B Julian, was 19. She married Philmore Green Henry about 1857, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in McLennan, Texas, United States in 1880 and Precinct, Bollinger, Missouri, United States in 1900. She died on 1 July 1926, in Spring Valley, McLennan, Texas, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Cox Cemetery, McLennan, Texas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Philmore Green Henry
1836–1905
Sarah Ann Smith
1838–1926
Marriage: about 1857
Sarah Caroline Henry
1858–1945
R W Henry
1870–
Jesse M. Henry
1879–
James A. Henry
1859–1921
David W. Henry
1865–1882
Caldonia Belle Henry
1868–1933
William Reynolds Henry
1869–1965
Anna Henry
1873–1901
Mary Jones Henry
1874–1931
Minnie Julian Henry
1877–1953

Sources (8)

  • Sarah Smith in household of David Smith, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Sarah Ann Smith Henry, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Sarah Ann Smith in entry for Minnie Julian High, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1846

Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

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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