Brief Life History of Caroline Vernon
When Caroline Vernon Smith was born on 17 April 1835, in Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Smith, was 60 and her mother, Hannah Vernon, was 41. She married James Brown on 1 June 1860, in Stockport, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Cheadle, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861 and Mount Sterling, Cache, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 6 August 1907, in Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Wellsville Cemetery, Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- Carolina Brown in household of James Brown, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Caroline Smith - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Caroline Vernon Smith
- Caroline V.S. Smith Brown, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1843
EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Ann Fielding Parkinson BIRTH 8 May 1809 England DEATH 11 Jun 1843 (aged 34) England BURIAL Wellsville Cemetery Wellsville, Cache County, Utah, USA Show Map MEMORIAL ID 9056771 ·
1856
Historical Boundaries: 1856: Weber, Utah Territory, United States 1856: Cache, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Cache, Utah, United States
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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