When Mary W. Smedley was born on 18 December 1837, in Fulton Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Joel Smedley, was 35 and her mother, Martha Wildman, was 32. She married Benjamin Cutler Reynolds on 20 February 1875, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. She died on 17 July 1880, at the age of 42.
English (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, and Lancashire): habitational name, mostly from Smithley in Wombwell (Yorkshire) but also from Smedley (Lancashire). The placenames probably mean ‘wood or woodland clearing of the smiths’, from Old English smitha, genitive plural form of smith ‘smith’, + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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