Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Smith was born on 13 October 1847, in South Carolina, United States, her father, Isaac Benjamin Smith, was 36 and her mother, Rebecca Jane Boatwright, was 18. She had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Jesse Caswell Smith. She lived in Court House Township, Chesterfield, South Carolina, United States for about 30 years. She died on 18 March 1914, at the age of 66, and was buried in Chesterfield, South Carolina, United States.
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- Sar* Smith in household of Jessie C Smith, "United States Census, 1910"
- Sarah Smith Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
- Sarah Smith in entry for Henry Flanigan Smith, "South Carolina, Delayed Birth Certificates, 1766-1900"
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1860
In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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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