Brief Life History of Mary Ann
When Mary Ann Smith was born on 20 September 1848, in Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Samuel Smith, was 34 and her mother, Maria Tyler, was 36. She married Edward Cox in 1864, in Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Parker, Fremont, Idaho, United States in 1910. She died on 22 January 1913, in St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Parker Memorial Park, Parker, Fremont, Idaho, United States.
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- Mary Ann Cox in household of Edward Cox Sr., "United States Census, 1910"
- Mary Ann Cox, "BillionGraves Index"
- Mary Ann Smith in entry for Gertrude Cox Mcnee, "Idaho, Southeast Counties Obituaries, 1864-2007"
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1850 · Coal Fields in South Wales Developed
Like the iron and copper mines, the coal fields in South Wales were very important to the industrial revolution. Many of those that worked in the coal mines were part of the Merthyr uprising.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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