Katherine Ann Smith

Brief Life History of Katherine Ann

When Katherine Ann Smith was born on 1 August 1869, in Frankfort, Center Township, Clinton, Indiana, United States, her father, Robert G Smith, was 45 and her mother, Olive Jane Davis, was 33. She married Alexander C O'Dell on 15 May 1886, in Greene, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Center Township, Clinton, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Robberson Township, Greene, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 2 December 1960, in Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Robberson Prairie Cemetery, Ebenezer, Greene, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Martin Presnell
1861–1927
Katherine Ann Smith
1869–1960
Marriage: 7 June 1894
Stella Elizabeth ODell Presnell
1888–1972
Walter Edward Presnell
1895–1959
Robert Dee Presnell
1897–1973
Roy George Presnell
1900–1963
Mary Edna Presnell
1902–1995
Fred L Presnell
1907–1925
Jess Martin Presnell
1911–1960

Sources (13)

  • Katie A Presnell, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Katherine A. Smith Presnell, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Katie E Smith in entry for A C Odell, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1872

Historical Boundaries: 1872: Clinton, Indiana, United States

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

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.

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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