Amanda R A Kirkwood

Brief Life History of Amanda R A

When Amanda R A Kirkwood was born on 11 May 1881, in United States, her father, John Henry Kirkwood, was 36 and her mother, Exey Suggs, was 33. She had at least 1 son and 6 daughters with Elijah E Smith. She lived in Danville, Yell, Arkansas, United States in 1940 and Spring Creek, Yell, Arkansas, United States in 1950. She died in December 1973, in Dardanelle, Yell, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Delaware, Logan, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Elijah E Smith
1877–1962
Amanda R A Kirkwood
1881–1973
Ruby Smith
1898–
Ruth Ann Smith
1901–1992
Lucy Smith
1902–1978
Evaline Smith
1906–
Earl Smith
1908–1915
Geneva Smith
1912–
Melcie Smith
1912–2001

Sources (8)

  • Mandie Smith, "United States, Census, 1900"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Amanda R A Kirkwood - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Amanda R A Kirkwood
  • Amanda Smith, "United States Social Security Death Index"

World Events (8)

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded

The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

Name Meaning

Scottish (central): habitational name from any of at least three places in Scotland called Kirkwood (Ayrshire, Dumfriesshire, Lanarkshire), named with Middle English kirk ‘church’ (Old Norse kirkja) + wode ‘wood’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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