Brief Life History of Mary Verna Viola
When Mary Verna Viola Smith was born on 15 June 1894, in Carroll, Missouri, United States, her father, William Henry Smith, was 32 and her mother, Flora May Plummer, was 27. She married Henry Herman Wetzel on 16 August 1916, in Livingston, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Livingston, Missouri, United States in 1935 and Blue Mound Township, Livingston, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 22 August 1980, in Johnson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Christison Cemetery, Blue Mound, Livingston, Missouri, United States.
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- Verna Smith in household of William H Smith, "United States Census, 1910"
- Verna Smith, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Mary V Smith in entry for Norma Lee Louderback, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
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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