Brief Life History of Ottie Mae
When Ottie Mae Smith was born on 6 February 1908, in Central City, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States, her father, Mitchell Smith, was 34 and her mother, Lula Ann Humphrey, was 29. She married Richard Barnes Maddox in 1928, in Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Bevier, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Bremen, Logan, Kentucky, United States in 1920. She died on 28 February 1997, in Dyer, St. John Township, Lake, Indiana, United States, at the age of 89.
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- Ottie Maddox in household of Mitchell Smith, "United States Census, 1930"
- Ottie M Smith in entry for D G Maddox, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
- Ottie Smith in household of Mitchell Smith, "United States Census, 1920"
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1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
1912 · McCreary County Created
Named after James B. McCreary a Confederate war hero and two time Governor of Kentucky McCreary County was created in 1912.
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
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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