Brief Life History of Ellen Rose
When Ellen Rose Smith was born on 5 April 1912, in Taylor, West Virginia, United States, her father, Robert Joseph Smith, was 24 and her mother, Ethel Jacobs, was 24. She lived in Knottsville, Taylor, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years and Grafton District, Taylor, West Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 12 February 1988, at the age of 75.
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Sources (3)
- Ellen Rose Smith in household of Robert J Smith, "United States Census, 1940"
- Ellen R Smith in household of Robert J Smith, "United States Census, 1930"
- Ellen R Smith in household of Robert J Smith, "United States Census, 1920"
Parents and Siblings
1887–1960 Male
1887– Female
Siblings (5)
1912–1988 Female
1914– Male
1917–1917 Male
1921–1996 Female
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World Events (8)
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
Age 1
1913 · The Seventeenth Amendment
Age 1
1932
Age 20
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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