When Susan Elzira Smithson was born on 4 August 1837, in Monroe, Franklin, Mississippi, United States, her father, William Cox Smithson, was 33 and her mother, Lucinda Wilson, was 24. She married Benjamin Franklin Dewey on 9 May 1855, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Utah, Utah, United States in 1850. She died on 18 November 1915, in Burbank, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
English (Yorkshire): from Middle English smith ‘smith’ + -son, for a son of a smith.
Irish (Dublin) and Scottish: in Scotland and Ireland, sometimes adopted for Mac Gobhann, Mac a'ghobhainn ‘son of the smith’ (see McGowan ).
History: The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC was founded (1846) with a bequest from the English chemist and mineralogist James Smithson (1765–1829). He was born James Lewes Macie, the illegitimate son of Hugh Smithson Percy, Duke of Northumberland. His mother, Elizabeth Macie, a widow, was a direct descendant of Henry VIII; through her family James Smithson inherited a fortune.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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