Brief Life History of Pearl
When Pearl Smith was born in 1877, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Joseph H. Smith, was 46 and her mother, Anissa "Elizabeth" Grayson, was 40. She married D. E. Greenlee on 17 September 1895, in McMinn, Tennessee, United States. She lived in Athens, McMinn, Tennessee, United States in 1880. She died on 3 August 1945, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 68.
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Sources (5)
- Pearl Smith in household of Joe Smith, "United States Census, 1880"
- Pearl Smith, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Ada Pearl Smith Greenlee, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
Spouse and Children
– Male
1877–1945 Female
Parents and Siblings
1831–1891 Male
1837– Female
Siblings (4)
1869– Male
1875– Male
1877–1945 Female
1879–1922 Male
World Events (8)
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
Age 1
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Age 4
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 19
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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