Ethel Grace Smith

Brief Life History of Ethel Grace

When Ethel Grace Smith was born on 28 April 1892, in Butler, Kansas, United States, her father, John Davidson Smith, was 45 and her mother, Margaret May Pettit, was 34. She married Burton Henry Baker on 8 September 1912, in Peabody, Marion, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in El Dorado, Butler, Kansas, United States in 1930 and Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 17 June 1993, in Edmond, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 101, and was buried in White Chapel Memorial Gardens, Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Burton Henry Baker
1892–1972
Ethel Grace Smith
1892–1993
Marriage: 8 September 1912
John Henry Baker
1914–1984
Margaret Lillian Baker
1916–2012
Eugene Richard Baker
1921–1979

Sources (16)

  • Ethel G Baker, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Ethel G Baker, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Ethel G in entry for Burton H Baker, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

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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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