Carl Kenneth Smith Sr

Male8 January 1917–30 January 2005

Brief Life History of Carl Kenneth

When Carl Kenneth Smith Sr was born on 8 January 1917, in Ohio, United States, his father, James Blanchard Smith, was 49 and his mother, Emma May Wunderlich, was 32. He had at least 1 son with Gaynell Hobson. He lived in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States for about 30 years. He died on 30 January 2005, at the age of 88, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Carl Kenneth Smith Sr
1917–2005
Gaynell Hobson
1925–2003
Carl Kenneth Smith Jr
1951–2020

Sources (9)

  • Carl K Smith, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Carl K Smith, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Carl K Smith in entry for Lewis T Smith, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

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Children (1)

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (5)

World Events (8)

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

Age 1

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

Age 2

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1941

Age 24

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

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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