When George Perry Smith was born on 15 June 1842, in Lockport, Niagara, New York, United States, his father, Henry Perkins Smith, was 31 and his mother, Christiana L Long, was 22. He married Hester Ann Tompkins on 10 April 1866, in LaSalle, Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York, United States. He lived in Wheatfield, Niagara, New York, United States for about 20 years and North Tonawanda, Niagara, New York, United States in 1900. He died on 17 April 1928, in Missoula, Missoula, Montana, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Missoula Cemetery, Missoula, Missoula, Montana, United States.
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EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER Kimball BIRTH unknown DEATH 1848 BURIAL Missoula Cemetery Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, USA PLOT Alder Path, Lot 388 MEMORIAL ID 85302421 · View Source
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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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