Brief Life History of William M.
When William M. Smith was born on 8 March 1847, in Pickens, South Carolina, United States, his father, Wylie Cornelius Smith Sr., was 23 and his mother, Isabella Angeline "Evie” Griffith, was 26. He had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Angeline C Greer. He lived in Pickens, Georgia, United States in 1870 and Edmonson, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died about 1915, in Baxley, Appling, Georgia, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Omega Cemetery, Baxley, Appling, Georgia, United States.
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- William Smith, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: W M Smith - Church record: birth-name: W M Smith
- William M. Smith, "Find A Grave Index"
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1853
Historical Boundaries: 1853: Pickens, Georgia, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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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