When Orrice Ray SMITH was born on 10 June 1884, in Gates, Marion, Oregon, United States, his father, Don Alonzo Smith, was 43 and his mother, Susan Permelia Turner, was 39. He married Nellie Luella McDonald on 29 June 1907, in Albany, Linn, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Shoshone, Idaho, United States in 1930 and Kellogg Election Precinct 2, Shoshone, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 23 January 1944, in Kellogg, Shoshone, Idaho, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Riverside Memorial Park, Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1885: Shoshone, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Shoshone, Idaho, United States
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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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