Brief Life History of Helena Martha Marie
When Helena Martha Marie Smith was born on 27 April 1879, in Whiting, Jackson, Kansas, United States, her father, Peter Johannes Gottfried Schmidt, was 29 and her mother, Louise Wilhelmine Charlotte LAPPINE, was 22. She married Nels Peter Pallesen on 1 September 1897, in Whiting, Jackson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Netawaka Township, Jackson, Kansas, United States in 1915 and Netawaka, Jackson, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 12 August 1975, in Holton, Jackson, Kansas, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Netawaka Cemetery, Netawaka, Jackson, Kansas, United States.
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- Lena Palleson in household of Peter Palleson, "Kansas State Census, 1925"
- Legacy NFS Source: Helena Smith - Government record: birth-name: Helena Smith
- Helena Martha Marie Smith Pallesen, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1881 · Kansas Prohibits Alcoholic Beverages
Kansas became the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment which prohibited all alcoholic beverages on February 19, 1881.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
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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