Brief Life History of Abraham
When Abraham Smith was born on 26 August 1806, in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States, his father, Benjamin Smith, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Neverson, was 19. He married Mary Elizabeth Bell Henley on 15 January 1830. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Brown, Illinois, United States in 1850. He died on 17 March 1879, in Woodstock Township, Schuyler, Illinois, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Rushville, Schuyler, Illinois, United States.
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- Abraham Smith, "United States Census, 1870"
- Abraham Smith, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Abraham Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1823
Historical Boundaries: 1823: Schuyler, Illinois, United States
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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