Minnie Mae Smith

Brief Life History of Minnie Mae

When Minnie Mae Smith was born on 2 November 1888, in Nanty-Glo, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Abraham J Smith, was 37 and her mother, Hannah E George, was 29. She married William Russell Bibby on 20 September 1905, in Nanty-Glo, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1935 and United States in 1949. She died on 15 June 1966, in Scalp Level, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Richland Cemetery, Richland Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Russell Bibby
1883–1958
Minnie Mae Smith
1888–1966
Marriage: 20 September 1905
George A Bibby
1906–1934
Eva Janetta Bibby
1908–1967
Catherine Edith Bibby
1912–2002
Jessie Bibby
1917–1995
Loretta "Nettie" Dorothy Bibby
1920–2009
Russell William Bibby
1923–2003
Jack Henry Bibby
1929–1996
Edith Mae Bibby
1933–1991

Sources (18)

  • Minnie Beby, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Minnie M. Smith, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
  • Minnie Bibby, "Pennsylvania, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

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1905 · The Movie Theater

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1909 · The NAACP is formed

Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.

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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