Brief Life History of Bessie Faye
When Bessie Faye Smith was born on 15 March 1911, in West Virginia, United States, her father, Henan A. Smith, was 38 and her mother, Mary Josephine Payne, was 26. She married Thomas Evans Webb in September 1952, in West Virginia, United States. She lived in Lincoln, West Virginia, United States in 1920 and Harts Creek District, Lincoln, West Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 28 July 1985, at the age of 74.
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- Fay Smith in household of Henon Smith, "United States Census, 1920"
- Faye Smith in entry for Thomas Evans Webb, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"
- Traye Smith in household of Heanor Smith, "United States Census, 1940"
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1912 · The Girl Scouts
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
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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