Brief Life History of Nellie
When Nellie Smith was born in November 1898, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Francis "Frank" Marion Smith, was 36 and her mother, Mary Martin, was 35. She married Warren Elie Bush on 24 August 1916, in Brushart, Greenup, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Clay Township, Scioto, Ohio, United States in 1930 and Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died on 28 March 1969, in New Boston, Scioto, Ohio, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Wheelersburg, Scioto, Ohio, United States.
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- Nellie Bush in household of Warren Bush, "United States Census, 1940"
- Nellie Smith, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Nellie Bush, "Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1900 · Governor Shot
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
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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