Brief Life History of Johnnie Cecil
Johnnie Cecil Smith was born on 28 May 1906, in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States as the son of H. M. Smith and Flora Etta Johnson. He married Effie Long on 3 January 1932, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Yuba Judicial Township, Sutter, California, United States in 1940 and Yuba City, Sutter, California, United States in 1950. He died on 13 June 1978, in Yuba, Yuba, California, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Sutter, Sutter, California, United States.
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- John C Smith, "United States 1950 Census"
- J C Smith, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Johnnie Cecil Smith, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1907
Oklahoma is the 46th state.
1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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