Willard Lisbon Smith

2 September 1891–2 December 1955 (Age 64)
Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States

The Life Summary of Willard Lisbon

When Willard Lisbon Smith was born on 2 September 1891, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States, his father, Willard Gilbert Smith, was 20 and his mother, Anna Mariah Lamb, was 23. He married Jane Hill Leavitt in February 1911, in Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Sweet Grass, Montana, United States in 1943 and lived in Medicine Hat, Cypress, Alberta, Canada in 1911 and Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada in 1926. He died on 2 December 1955, in Cardston, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 64, and was buried in Leavitt, Cardston, Alberta, Canada.

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Family Time Line

Willard Lisbon Smith
1891–1955
Jane Hill Leavitt
1891–1973
Marriage: February 1911
Garth Lisbon Smith
1912–1913
Willard Deloy Smith
1914–2015
Theron Leon Smith
1921–2005
Verla Smith
1923–1926
Opha Smith
1926–

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    February 1911Davis, Utah, United States
    • Children

    (5)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (8)

    +3 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1895
    Age 4
    Historical Boundaries 1895: Sweet Grass, Montana, United States
    1896 · Utah Becomes a State
    Age 5
    After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
    1908 · Utah's First National Monument
    Age 17
    Natural Bridges National Monument was designated a National Monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It is Utah’s first National Monument but didn’t get many visitors until after the uranium boom of the 1950s. Today the Monument and its park became the first International Dark Sky Park certified by the International Dark-Sky Association.

    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.

    Possible Related Names

    Smithe
    Smither
    Smithey
    Smyth
    Smythe
    McGowan
    Smead
    Faber

    Story Highlight

    Journal of Gilbert 1951

    Gilbert shares of the challenges of farming and his worries of the health of his brothers Willard and Warren. This has been a very disappointing year for the farmer the season has been one of the wet …

    Sources (43)

    • Willard Smith, "Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1926"
    • Willard L in entry for Willard DeLoy Smith and Olga Fenn, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
    • Willard L Smith in entry for Willard Deloy Smith, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"

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