Lumentie Wyona Smith

Brief Life History of Lumentie Wyona

When Lumentie Wyona Smith was born on 2 September 1897, in Clearwater, Antelope, Nebraska, United States, her father, William Lincoln Smith, was 25 and her mother, Sarah L. Willoughby, was 25. She married Herman Daniel Thorne on 10 October 1917. She lived in United States in 1949 and York, York, Nebraska, United States in 1950. She died on 9 April 1969, in York, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in York, York, Nebraska, United States.

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Family Time Line

Herman Daniel Thorne
1893–1960
Lumentie Wyona Smith
1897–1969
Marriage: 10 October 1917

Sources (9)

  • Wyona L Thorne, "United States 1950 Census"
  • W Lumentie Thorne, "BillionGraves Index"
  • Wyona Lumentie Smith, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

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World Events (8)

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

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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