Brief Life History of Billy Wayne
When Billy Wayne Smith was born on 12 December 1949, his father, Ray Lawson Smith, was 25 and his mother, Mildred Louise Lee, was 22. He lived in Pearl River, Mississippi, United States in 1950. He died on 12 May 2015, in Purvis, Lamar, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 65.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- Billy W Smith, "United States 1950 Census"
Parents and Siblings
1924–1998 Male
1927–2004 Female
Siblings (4)
1948–2012 Male
1949–2015 Male
1952–1994 Male
1953–2017 Female
World Events (8)
1950
Age 1
1964 · The Freedom Summer Murders
Age 15
1967 · The Twenty-Fifth Amendment
Age 18
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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