Francis Nash Sharpe Smith

26 May 1809–27 April 1910 (Age 100)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

The Life Summary of Francis Nash Sharpe

When Francis Nash Sharpe Smith was born on 26 May 1809, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Samual Blair Smith, was 24 and her mother, Margaret Ferguson, was 21. She died on 27 April 1910, in United States, at the age of 100.

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Family Time Line

Samual Blair Smith
1784–1834
Margaret Ferguson
1787–1861
Charles Ferguson Smith
1807–1862
Elizabeth Ferguson Smith
1812–1846
Francis Nash Sharpe Smith
1809–1910
Anna Hill Smith
1816–1892
Francis Marion Smith
1818–
Henry F. Smith
1820–1820
Caroline Laurens Smith
1821–
Lucie LeGrand Smith
1828–1911

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World Events (8)

1812
Age 3
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Age 3
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution. 
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Age 27
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

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.

Possible Related Names

Smithe
Smither
Smithey
Smyth
Smythe
McGowan
Smead
Faber

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