Margaret Smith

1 October 1855–3 August 1941 (Age 85)
Morton, Tazewell, Illinois, United States

The Life Summary of Margaret

When Margaret Smith was born on 1 October 1855, in Morton, Tazewell, Illinois, United States, her father, Thaddeus Ebenezer Smith, was 51 and her mother, Margaret Mary Shreve, was 39. She lived in Morton Township, Tazewell, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Illinois, United States in 1870. She died on 3 August 1941, in Washington, Oregon, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Forest View Cemetery, Forest Grove, Washington, Oregon, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thaddeus Ebenezer Smith
1804–1881
Margaret Mary Shreve
1816–1901
Caroline Smith
1836–1850
Smith
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Elijah (Eli) Smith
1837–1910
Mary A Smith
1839–1915
Elizabeth Jane Smith
1841–1863
William B. Smith
1843–1864
Sarah M. Smith
1845–1881
Winfield Scott Smith
1848–1912
Leonard Abner Smith
1850–1902
Sara Adeline Smith
1853–1917
Margaret Smith
1855–1941
Isabella Smith
1857–1927

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World Events (8)

1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
Age 1
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
1863
Age 8
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Age 26
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

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.

Possible Related Names

Smithe
Smither
Smithey
Smyth
Smythe
McGowan
Smead
Faber

Sources (7)

  • Margaret Smith in household of Thaddeus Smith, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Margaret Smith in household of Thadeus Smith, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Margaret Smith Stephenson, "Find A Grave Index"

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