Wallace Roy Smith

Brief Life History of Wallace Roy

When Wallace Roy Smith was born on 21 October 1926, in Ware Neck, Gloucester, Virginia, United States, his father, Arthur Thomas Smith, was 24 and his mother, Josephine Minor Hogge, was 23. He lived in Ware District, Gloucester, Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 14 May 1966, in Roaring Spring, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 39.

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Family Time Line

Arthur Thomas Smith
1902–1972
Josephine Minor Hogge
1903–1951
Bessie May Smith
1923–1970
Nellie Ivor Smith
1926–1930
Wallace Roy Smith
1926–1966
Josephine Smith
1929–1929

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  • Wallace R Smith in household of Arthur T Smith, "United States Census, 1940"

World Events (8)

1927

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

1929

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

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 Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.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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