When Mary Estelle Smith was born on 13 January 1885, in Banner Elk, Avery, North Carolina, United States, her father, Eli Taylor Smith, was 22 and her mother, Cordelia Moody, was 21. She married John Stanley Baird in 1907, in Vale, Lincoln, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Shawneehaw Township, Watauga, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years. She died on 29 April 1914, in Watauga, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Matney, Watauga, North Carolina, United States.
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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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