Lillian Mae Ake

Brief Life History of Lillian Mae

When Lillian Mae Ake was born on 5 October 1899, in Alabama, United States, her father, Nathaniel Price Ake, was 37 and her mother, Malinda Lindy Chavers, was 34. She married Clarence Smith on 6 May 1924, in Scottsboro, Jackson, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Tupelo, Jackson, Alabama, United States in 1920 and Hollywood, Jackson, Alabama, United States in 1930. She died on 2 November 2000, in Cleveland, Bradley, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 101, and was buried in Cleveland, Bradley, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Clarence Smith
1902–1986
Lillian Mae Ake
1899–2000
Marriage: 6 May 1924
Paul Nye Smith
1925–1998
Sam Benjamin Smith
1926–1971
Melinda L Smith
1928–2013

Sources (15)

  • Lillian M Smith in household of Clarence Smith, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Mae Ake, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  • May Smith, "Alabama, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome

A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name for someone living by a prominent oak tree, from Middle English ake ‘oak’, or a habitational name from the village of Aike, near Lockington, East Yorkshire, which is named with Old English āc ‘oak’, dative āce ‘(place at) the oak tree’.

Amerindian (Mexico): from the name of the site of a pre-Columbian Mayan settlement in the Yucatán Peninsula.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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