Brief Life History of Josephine Donna
When Josephine Donna Smith was born on 10 March 1841, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Don Carlos Smith, was 24 and her mother, Agnes Moulton Coolbrith, was 32. She married Robert Bruce Carsley on 21 April 1858, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in California, United States in 1928 and Oakland, Alameda, California, United States in 1929. She died on 29 February 1928, in Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda, California, United States.
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- Josephine D Carsley, "United States Census, 1860"
- Josephine Smith and R B Caisley, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1953" - marriage records
- Ina Coolbrith, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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World Events (8)
1842 · Relief Society Organized
The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized on March 17, 1842. Emma Smith was the first Relief Society president. It was established as a way to help strengthen and serve other women.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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.
Possible Related NamesStory Highlight
Josephine Donna Smith (Ina Coolbrith), daughter of Don Carlos Smith and Agnes Coolbrith, by Roy B. Huff and Kyle R. Walker in "United by Faith," Covenant Comunications (American Fork, Utah), pp. 384-86.
Josephine Donna Smith was born 10 March 1841 in Nauvoo, Illinois--just a few months previous to her father's death (Don Carlos Smith died 7 August 1941). She had two older sisters, Agnes Charlotte (b …
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