Sarah Amelia Smith

Brief Life History of Sarah Amelia

When Sarah Amelia Smith was born on 4 October 1878, in Polk, Arkansas, United States, her father, Barryman Jasper Smith, was 25 and her mother, Elsie Melinda Sicily Jane Shedd, was 21. She married John Elihu Hill on 3 December 1901, in Polk, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Eagle Township, Polk, Arkansas, United States in 1920 and Freedom Township, Polk, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 7 July 1947, in Arkansas, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Mountain Fork, Polk, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Elihu Hill
1874–1941
Sarah Amelia Smith
1878–1947
Marriage: 3 December 1901
Sadie Aster Hill
1903–1989
Naoma Mae Hill
1904–1988
Jefferson Davis Hill
1907–1918
Lue Gertie Hill
1909–1999
Euna Mable Hill
1913–2003
Robert Dewey Hill
1915–1973
Roy Lewis Hill
1918–2002
Frasher Warren Hill
1923–1987

Sources (16)

  • Melia S Hill in household of John E Hill, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Sarah Hill, "Arkansas, First Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Sarah Amelia Smith - Individual or family possessions: death: 7 July 1947; Mena, Polk, Arkansas, United States

World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

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.

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.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

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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