Dorothy Marie Smith

Brief Life History of Dorothy Marie

When Dorothy Marie Smith was born on 21 March 1921, in West Terre Haute, Sugar Creek Township, Vigo, Indiana, United States, her father, Herbert Jesse Smith, was 31 and her mother, Margaret Ann Fields, was 28. She married Paul Elick Andrews on 8 January 1938. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Sugar Creek Township, Vigo, Indiana, United States in 1930 and Harrison, Fayette Township, Vigo, Indiana, United States for about 5 years. She died on 29 January 1963, in Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan, United States.

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Family Time Line

Paul Elick Andrews
1918–1970
Dorothy Marie Smith
1921–1963
Marriage: 8 January 1938
Franklin Andrews
1938–2012
Paul H. Andrews
1940–1993
Roy "Tom" Andrews
1942–2006

Sources (10)

  • Dorothy Andrews in household of Paul Andrews, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Dorothy Andrews, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Dorothy Smith, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"

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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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