Brief Life History of Mondes Alva
When Mondes Alva Smith was born on 27 March 1890, in Knox Dale, Knox Township, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Andrew Grier Smith, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Millissa McAninch, was 29. He married Hazel Alice Himes about 1913, in Pennsylvania, United States. He lived in Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States in 1949 and Punxsutawney, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 31 July 1961, in Logan Township, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Circle Hill Cemetery, Punxsutawney, Jefferson, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Mondes Smith, "United States 1950 Census"
- Mondes Alva Smith, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Mondes A. Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1905 · The Movie Theater
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
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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