Brief Life History of Margaret Luela
When Margaret Luela Smith was born on 20 May 1865, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Barton Smith, was 31 and her mother, Nancy Jane Robbins, was 29. She married Dudley Hunter Winningham in 1882, in Fentress, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Civil District 4, Pickett, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and Civil District 10, Franklin, Tennessee, United States in 1920. She died on 12 February 1925, in Fentress, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Sells Cemetery, Fentress, Tennessee, United States.
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- Margaret L Winningham in household of Rachel Robbins, "United States Census, 1900"
- Margarett L Winningham, "BillionGraves Index"
- Margaret Smith in entry for Nova Pearl Beaty, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
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