Brief Life History of Cassie
When Cassie Smith was born on 21 April 1904, in Cordia, Perry, Kentucky, United States, her father, Alexander L Smith, was 33 and her mother, Nancy Stacy, was 27. She married Allen Martin on 4 March 1921, in Lotts Creek, Perry, Kentucky, United States. She lived in Magisterial District 1, Knott, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died in 1999, at the age of 95.
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Sources (2)
- Cassie Martin in household of Allen Martin, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Cassie Smith - Government record: birth-name: Cassie Smith
Spouse and Children
1896–1975 Male
1904–1999 Female
Parents and Siblings
1871–1937 Male
1876–1960 Female
Siblings (4)
1897–1944 Male
1903–1950 Female
1904–1999 Female
1918–1987 Male
World Events (8)
1906 · Saving Food Labels
Age 2
1912 · McCreary County Created
Age 8
1929
Age 25
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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