When Lillian Thacker Small was born on 7 June 1874, in Friendship, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, her father, Capt. Edward Albert Small CSA, was 38 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Thacker, was 23. She married William Baird Merrimon on 8 December 1897, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 10 May 1948, in Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English and Scottish (Angus): nickname for a person of slender build or diminutive stature, from Middle English smal(e), smel(e) ‘small, slender, thin’ (Old English smæl).
Irish (Down): adopted for Beag ‘small’; see Begg .
Americanized form (translation into English) of any of various European surnames meaning ‘small’, e.g. German Klein and Schmal , Polish Mały, Czech and Slovak Malý (see Maly 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesManuscripts - Edward A. Small Family Papers - From the Greensboro History Museum 1841-1937 [bulk 1854-1908]. 1 box (35 folders), ca. 385 items.MSS. COLL. #67 NOTE: The numbers cited in parentheses …
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