Brief Life History of William Millard
William Millard Smith was born on 27 October 1869, in Polk, North Carolina, United States as the son of Calloway Smith and Jane Taylor. He married Martha Ann Donnahoo on 27 August 1893. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Campobello Township, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States in 1900 and Campobello, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States in 1910. He died on 2 July 1940, in Spindale, Rutherford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Fingerville, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States.
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- Miller Smith, "United States Census, 1940"
- William Miller Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
- William Miller Smith in entry for Grady Thomas Smith, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1877 · Last Troops Leave
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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