Couch Smith

Male29 January 1880–27 November 1958

Brief Life History of Couch

When Couch Smith was born on 29 January 1880, in Smithville, Clay, Missouri, United States, his father, Erastus Smith, was 38 and his mother, Mary E. Berry, was 34. He married Margaret Briddelle Caldwell on 19 June 1907, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1930. He died on 27 November 1958, at the age of 78, and was buried in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Couch Smith
1880–1958
Margaret Briddelle Caldwell
1883–1974
Marriage: 19 June 1907
Calvin Caldwell Smith
1907–1978
Berri Briddelle Smith
1909–1992
Margaret Elizabeth Smith
1912–1981
Meldon Adelle Smith
1916–2007
Marjori Couch Smith
1917–1984
Richard Erastus Smith
1919–1920

Sources (13)

  • Couch Smith in household of Erastus Smith, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Couch Smith, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • Couch Smith, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    19 June 1907Missouri, United States
  • Children (6)

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    Siblings (10)

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    World Events (8)

    1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

    Age 1

    Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

    1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

    Age 2

    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.

    1901 · Assassination of Mckinley

    Age 21

    President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.

    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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