Brief Life History of Joseph Eugene
When Joseph Eugene Smith was born on 10 November 1892, in Franklin, North Carolina, United States, his father, Noel Benjamin Smith, was 23 and his mother, Viola Marshall, was 20. He married Naomie Thedford Hayes on 2 February 1913, in Sandy Creek Township, Vance, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Cedarrock, Franklin, North Carolina, United States in 1930 and Cedar Rock Township, Franklin, North Carolina, United States in 1940. He died on 22 December 1963, in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Montlawn Memorial Park, Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States.
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- Joseph Smith, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Joseph Eugene Smith - Government record: birth-name: Joseph Eugene Smith
- Joe E Smith, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
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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.
1897 · First Bill for Women Suffrage
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
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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