When Silas Schellinger Smith was born on 6 June 1822, in Stockholm, St. Lawrence, New York, United States, his father, Asahel Smith Jr., was 49 and his mother, Elizabeth Schellenger, was 36. He married Elizabeth Orton on 9 February 1844, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1847 and lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Leamington, Millard, Utah, United States in 1880. In 1880, at the age of 58, his occupation is listed as attorney. He died on 11 June 1892, in Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Meadow Cemetery, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
In 1841, the Nauvoo Legion was organized. It was a group of men formed to protect the people of Nauvoo but also fought in different wars. Joseph Smith was the Lieutenant General of this group. Other leaders included Brigham Young, John C. Bennett, and others. They were part of the Illinois Mormon War (1844-1846), Mexican-American War (March of California, Capture of Tucson), Indian Wars (Battle Creek Massacre, Battle of Fort Utah, Walker War, Ute Black Hawk War, Mountain Meadows Massacre), American Civil War, and Morrisite War. The Legion was disbanded in 1887.
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.
Possible Related NamesA Journal of the travels of Silas Smith while on a mission to the Sandwich Islands, commencing May 8, 1854. On the morning of the 8th I left Provo City (Utah Territory) the place the place of my resid …
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