Brief Life History of Ronald W
When Ronald W Smith was born on 8 February 1929, his father, Merritt D. Smith, was 20 and his mother, Vernese Marie Bedwell, was 20. He married Judith Irene Burley on 26 June 1954, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He died on 4 August 2007, in Cortez, Montezuma, Colorado, United States, at the age of 78.
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- Ronald Wayne Smith, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Ronald Or Ron Smith in entry for Judith Irene Smith Burley, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
- Ronald W Smith, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
1936 · Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
"Built on property donated by the Broadmoor Art Academy, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center was built in April of 1936. This was in the middle of the """"Gret Deperession"""" and Alice Bemis Tylor funded the project to help employ laborers who were unemployed."
1950
United States military forces play a leading role against North Korean and Chinese troops in Korean War.
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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