Oscar L Smith

Male21 August 1903–12 July 1904

Brief Life History of Oscar L

When Oscar L Smith was born on 21 August 1903, in Anderson, South Carolina, United States, his father, Joseph H Smith, was 42 and his mother, Ida Elizabeth Ertzberger, was 24. He died on 12 July 1904, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Anderson, Anderson, South Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph H Smith
1861–1910
Ida Elizabeth Ertzberger
1879–1961
Frank Smith
1886–
Fannie Smith
1888–
Bessie Murphy
1892–1963
Bessie Irene Smith
1892–
Preston Forest Smith
1893–1965
Essie Smith
1896–1983
Ethel Smith
1898–
Olis Smith
1901–1971
Oscar L Smith
1903–1904
Paul Leroy Smith
1905–1983
Clarence Henry Smith
1907–1982

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  • Oscar L. Smith, "Find A Grave Index"

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Siblings (11)

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World Events (1)

1904

Age 1

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

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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