Brief Life History of Maxine Faye
When Maxine Faye Smith was born on 14 March 1931, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Edward Franklin Smith, was 26 and her mother, Blanche Eva Foster, was 19. She married Calvin Lee "Bud" Wilhite Sr. on 14 February 1947, in Hiawatha, Brown, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 12 October 2018, in her hometown, at the age of 87, and was buried in Ridgewood Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States.
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- Maxine Smith, "United States Census, 1940"
- Maxine Fay Smith, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
- Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999
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1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
1934 · The Grout Museum
The museum started as a private collection given to the city by Henry W. Grout. Today it is still a nonprofit educational museum that helps engage students and all people from the surrounding communities.
1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins
The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
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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