Daniel Smith
25 November 1829–
Mount Pleasant, Maury, Tennessee, United States
The Life of Daniel
When Daniel Smith was born on 25 November 1829, in Mount Pleasant, Maury, Tennessee, United States, his father, John L Smith, was 38 and his mother, Jane Davidson Williams, was 30. He lived in Maury, Tennessee, United States in 1850.
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Family Time Line
John L Smith
1791–1861
Jane Davidson Williams
1799–1850
Samuel H Smith
1825–1912
Daniel Smith
1829–
Parents and Siblings
1791–1861Male
1799–1850Female
siblings
(2)
1825–1912Male
1829–Male
World Events (8)
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 1
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
Age 6
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
Age 33
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a worker in metal, from Middle English smith (Old English smið, probably a derivative of smītan ‘to strike, hammer’). Metalworking was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents were perhaps 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 the most frequent of all American surnames; it has also absorbed, by assimilation and translation, cognates and equivalents from many other languages (for forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988 ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Sources (1)
- Daniel Smith in household of John L Smith, "United States Census, 1850"
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