Brief Life History of Charles Moses
When Charles Moses Smith was born about 1863, in Oregon, United States, his father, Absalom Smith, was 41 and his mother, Sarah Cullison, was 35. He married Evalina Lynes on 20 December 1880, in Marion, Marion, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 18 September 1936, in Jefferson, Marion, Oregon, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Jefferson, Marion, Oregon, United States.
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- Chas. Smith in household of Sarah Smith, "United States Census, 1880"
- Charles Smith, "Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998"
- Cha. M Smith in entry for Jean Smith, "Oregon, Center for Health Statistics, Birth Records, 1903-1918"
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about 1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · Married Women's Property Act
Married Women’s Property Act protected women’s rights protected property for women in Oregon upon the death of her husband.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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