Gertie Marie Yates

Female28 October 1909–10 June 1962

Brief Life History of Gertie Marie

When Gertie Marie Yates was born on 28 October 1909, in Hartselle, Morgan, Alabama, United States, her father, William Berry Yates, was 22 and her mother, Mary Davison, was 22. She married Clarence William Eugene Smith on 19 August 1933, in Morgan, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 10 June 1962, in Hartselle, Morgan, Alabama, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery, Hartselle, Morgan, Alabama, United States.

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Family Time Line

Clarence William Eugene Smith
1901–1991
Gertie Marie Yates
1909–1962
Marriage: 19 August 1933
Noel Eugene Smith
1934–2003

Sources (11)

  • Gertie Smith, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Unknown, "Alabama, County Birth Registers, 1881-1930"
  • Gertie Marie Yates, "Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    19 August 1933Morgan, Alabama, United States
  • Children (1)

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    Siblings (1)

    World Events (8)

    1910 · The BSA is Made

    Age 1

    Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.

    1910 · The Mann Act

    Age 1

    This Act makes engaging in transport of any woman for any immoral purpose, prostitution, illegal. Its primary intent was to address prostitution, immorality, and human trafficking, particularly where trafficking was for the purposes of prostitution.

    1927

    Age 18

    Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

    Name Meaning

    English: from Middle English yates ‘gates’, plural of yate, Old English geat ‘gate’, hence a topographic or occupational name for someone who lived by the gates of a town or castle and who probably acted as the gatekeeper or porter. Compare Gates . Alternatively, a variant of the singular form Yate, with post-medieval excrescent -s.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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