Delores Letcher Smith

Brief Life History of Delores

Delores Letcher Smith was born in 1920, in Blandburg, Reade Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States. She had at least 1 son with John Smith. She died in 1991, in Wellsburg, Brooke, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 71.

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Family Time Line

John Smith
1914–1989
Delores Letcher Smith
1920–1991
John Thomas Smith
1937–1989

Sources (2)

  • Dolores Letcher, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
  • Ellen D Letcher in entry for J T Smith, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"

World Events (8)

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1920

Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name from Middle English lecher, lechour, lichour ‘physician’, a derivative of the verb lechen, lichen ‘to cure, treat with medicines’.

English: nickname from Middle English lech(o)ur, lecher, lichour ‘debauchee, glutton, rake, lecher, paramour’ (Old French lecheor).

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream or wet place, Middle English leche, lache + -er. This type of name is found mainly in the most southerly English counties, especially Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex. Compare Leachman .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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