Brief Life History of Elizabeth Cooper
When Elizabeth Cooper Smith was born on 2 December 1910, in Kent, Maryland, United States, her father, Dr Frank Wilmer Smith, was 31 and her mother, Eva Foxwell Cooper, was 25. She married Harmon Cook Joyner on 7 November 1932, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Fairlee, Kent, Maryland, United States in 1930 and Chestertown, Kent, Maryland, United States in 1999. She died on 28 November 1999, in Centreville, Queen Anne's, Maryland, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Chestertown, Kent, Maryland, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (4)
- Elizabeth Smith in household of Frank W Smith, "United States Census, 1920"
- Mrs Elizabeth Cooper Smith Joyner, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
- Elizabeth S Joyner in household of Harmon C Joyner, "United States Census, 1940"
Spouse and Children
1909–1992 Male
1910–1999 Female
Children (2)
1934– Female
1947– Male
Parents and Siblings
1879–1951 Male
1885–1962 Female
Siblings (5)
1909–1993 Female
1910–1999 Female
1912–2010 Female
1916–1969 Male
1920–2006 Male
World Events (8)
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Age 2
1917 · WWI and Delaware
Age 7
1935 · The FBI is Established
Age 25
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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