Eugene Wallace Smith

Brief Life History of Eugene Wallace

When Eugene Wallace Smith was born on 26 February 1918, in Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, his father, Charles Thurman Tewell Smith, was 29 and his mother, Lucy Emaline Osborn, was 25. He died on 22 November 1989, in Blackwell, Kay, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Blackwell Cemetery, Blackwell, Kay, Oklahoma, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles Thurman Tewell Smith
1888–1974
Lucy Emaline Osborn
1892–1977
Olen Charles Smith
1910–1974
Dorothy Viola Smith
1913–1993
Iva Pearl Smith
1916–1995
Eugene Wallace Smith
1918–1989
John Delmar Smith
1920–1997
James Thurman Smith
1923–1982
Lois Ida Smith
1926–2014
Mona Darlene Smith
1933–1977
Patty Ione Smith
1936–2021

Sources (5)

  • Eugene Smith, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Eugene W Smith, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Eugene W Smith, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

World Events (8)

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1921 · Tulsa Race Massacre

 By 1921, Tulsa was a booming city with a population of over one hundred thousand, with ten thousand African Americans in the Greenwood District. Crime rates in Tulsa soared and vigilantism was present. An incident occurred with Dick Rowland, an African American shoe shiner, and Sara Page, a white elevator operator. Reports claim Rowland stepped on Page’s foot and she let out a scream. The newspaper reported Rowland attempted to rape Page. Rowland was arrested and white vigilantes demanded the sheriff to hand over Rowland for lynching. An armed group of African American men went to the courthouse to aid in protecting Rowland from the mob. The group was turned away and a shot was fired between the white and African American groups, which ignited a riot. While buildings in Tulsa were burned, a major effort by whites focused mainly on the Greenwood District which was burned to the ground and many were shot. Over 30 people were killed and many were injured in the riots. 

1937 · The Neutrality Act

The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

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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