Brief Life History of Samuel Kennon
When Samuel Kennon Smith was born on 4 May 1882, in Malvern, Hot Spring, Arkansas, United States, his father, William Nathaniel Smith, was 46 and his mother, Clara "Cala" Coleman Barbee, was 33. He married 'Joe Henry' Moffitt on 17 January 1914, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Civil District 16, Carroll, Tennessee, United States in 1940 and Carroll, Tennessee, United States in 1950. He died on 16 December 1950, in McKenzie, Carroll, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Lexington, Henderson, Tennessee, United States.
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- Kennon Smith, "United States 1950 Census"
- S. K. Smith, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Kennon Smith, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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