Brief Life History of Mary Edith
When Mary Edith Smith was born on 27 July 1888, in Laurel Hill, DeKalb, Tennessee, United States, her father, Stephen A Douglas Smith, was 22 and her mother, Mattie Cordelia Bowman, was 19. She married Lawrence Haskell Byrne on 5 September 1906, in Putnam, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Livingston, Overton, Tennessee, United States for about 5 years and Civil District 1, Putnam, Tennessee, United States in 1940. She died on 26 August 1967, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Cookeville City Cemetery, Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (10)
- Eddith Byrne in household of William J Byrne, "United States Census, 1910"
- Eddith Smith, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Eddithe Smith in entry for Laurence Douglass Byrne, "Tennessee, Death Records, 1914-1955"
Spouse and Children
1887–1960 Male
1888–1967 Female
Children (3)
1907–1966 Male
1908–1978 Female
1915–1915 Male
Parents and Siblings
1866–1938 Male
1868–1935 Female
Siblings (5)
1888–1959 Female
1888–1967 Female
1891–1931 Male
1899–1938 Male
1901–1970 Male
World Events (8)
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
Age 2
1890 · Woman's Suffrage
Age 2
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Age 21
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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