Brief Life History of Gertrude L.
When Gertrude L. Smith was born on 2 August 1900, in Gallatin, Sumner, Tennessee, United States, her father, George E. Smith, was 33 and her mother, Flora Jane Keen, was 31. She married Murnie Prewett Coates on 22 February 1917, in Robertson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Magisterial District 7, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died on 20 January 1920, in Crofton, Christian, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 19, and was buried in Old Petersburg Cemetery, Mannington, Christian, Kentucky, United States.
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- Gertrude Smith in household of Henery C Curtis, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Gertrude L. Smith - Published information: birth: 1899; Tennessee, United States
- Gertrude Smith, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
1904 · The Black Patch War
From 1904-1909, the Black Patch War took place. This was a war between about 30 counties in southwestern Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee. The war was mostly over the Dark Fired Tobacco that was produced in the area during this time.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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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