Brief Life History of Ruth Marie
When Ruth Marie Smith was born on 7 May 1916, in Shelby, Richland, Ohio, United States, her father, John Drake Smith, was 22 and her mother, Fay Iona Karr, was 20. She had at least 1 son with Horace Albert Goldsmith. She lived in Sharon Township, Richland, Ohio, United States in 1920 and Plymouth, Plymouth Township, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died on 2 September 2003, at the age of 87, and was buried in Shelby, Richland, Ohio, United States.
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- Ruth Smith in household of John Smith Sr., "United States Census, 1930"
- Ruth Marie Goldsmith, "Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007"
- Ruth Marie Smith in entry for Richard Eugene Goldsmith, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
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World Events (8)
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1917 · Joining the First World War
Starting with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, which killed 128 American citizens, and many other conflicts with trade from Germany. Congress held a special meeting that resulted in The United States declaring war on Germany. Formally entering the First World War.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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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