Della Smith

Female1878–

Brief Life History of Della

Della Smith was born in 1878, in California, United States. She married Hiram William Bennett on 1 September 1897, in Tehama, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Chico, Butte, California, United States in 1910.

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Family Time Line

Hiram William Bennett
1872–1926
Della Smith
1878–
Marriage: 1 September 1897
Wilda Mae Bennett
1898–1980
James Lawrence Bennett
1900–1959
Ira Neil Bennett
1904–1963

Sources (11)

  • Della Bennett in household of William Bennett, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Della Smith, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
  • Della Smith in entry for Arthur Edmund Johnson and Wilda M Klemmer, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1 September 1897Tehama, California, United States
  • Children (3)

    World Events (8)

    1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

    Age 3

    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.

    1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

    Age 13

    Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

    1909 · The NAACP is formed

    Age 31

    Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.

    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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