Brief Life History of Dixie Lee
When Dixie Lee Smith was born on 18 October 1870, in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, her father, James Madison Smith, was 39 and her mother, Anne Cline, was 32. She married Joseph Arthur Hill on 31 August 1891, in Parker, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 3, Parker, Texas, United States in 1900 and Justice Precinct 1, Parker, Texas, United States in 1920. She died on 2 April 1957, in Weatherford, Parker, Texas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Greenwood, Parker, Texas, United States.
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- Dixie Surginer, "United States Census, 1950"
- Mrs M J Smith, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Dixie Starquiver, "Texas, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1880
Historical Boundaries 1880: Parker, Texas, United States
1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
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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