Sarah Catherine Smith married, Oct. 21, 1846, Itawamba Co, MS #1 John Gideon Thompson, after his death in 1860 she married, Nov. 25, 1880, Lee Co, MS #2 Robert Caldwell Richey.
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As a little girl, Sarah Catherine Smith came with her parents to the new home north of where Old Campbellton now is and a short distance from Old Carrollville. The country had but recently been vacated by the Indians and a certain amount of disorder and confusion reigned everywhere. Scant progress had been made in erection of schools, organization of churches and the orderly enforcement of law. It was truly a new country. As was to be expected, educational advantages were limited, but such as were to be had, she enjoyed and made the most of.
Sarah Catherine, inexpressibly saddened by the death of her husband, gathered two young girls and a little boy about her with the quiet determination of one who always succeeds, and in that clam preceding the outbreak of the Civil War began the struggle for existence and the education of her children.
Years later, with schooling finished and those children grown up, happily remarried.
After a life of useful service, loyalty and unselfish devotion to her family and her friends, Sarah Catherine Smith sank into the last sleep at the home of her daughter, Mattive Kennedy of Saltillo, MS on May 8, 1913.
Her days had been largely filled with the management of her farm and the care of her family. The loss of her father at a tender age and her husbands after but a comparitively few years of married life had made her the shepardess of her flock and not for some years was she able to relax and enjoy the freedom from business cares and responsibilities which in those days was considered woman's rightful heritage.
She was of the sturdy stock that has reclaimed the wilderness, fought down obstacles, overcome dangers and spread out across the horizon the realization of that cherished vision of a free people engaged in the peaceful pursuit of happiness.
Grandmother, Sarah Catherine Smith, affectionately known to her descendants as "Mammie", occupied a very large niche in the hearts of her grandchildren.
SOURCE: Letter from C. T. Young, Plant City, Florida, June 24, 1934.
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As a little girl, Sarah Catherine Smith came with her parents to the new home north of where Old Campbellton now is and a short distance from Old Carrollville. The country had but recently been vacated by the Indians and a certain amount of disorder and confusion reigned everywhere. Scant progress had been made in erection of schools, organization of churches and the orderly enforcement of law. It was truly a new country. As was to be expected, educational advantages were limited, but such as were to be had, she enjoyed and made the most of.
Sarah Catherine, inexpressibly saddened by the death of her husband, gathered two young girls and a little boy about her with the quiet determination of one who always succeeds, and in that clam preceding the outbreak of the Civil War began the struggle for existence and the education of her children.
Years later, with schooling finished and those children grown up, happily remarried.
After a life of useful service, loyalty and unselfish devotion to her family and her friends, Sarah Catherine Smith sank into the last sleep at the home of her daughter, Mattive Kennedy of Saltillo, MS on May 8, 1913.
Her days had been largely filled with the management of her farm and the care of her family. The loss of her father at a tender age and her husbands after but a comparitively few years of married life had made her the shepardess of her flock and not for some years was she able to relax and enjoy the freedom from business cares and responsibilities which in those days was considered woman's rightful heritage.
She was of the sturdy stock that has reclaimed the wilderness, fought down obstacles, overcome dangers and spread out across the horizon the realization of that cherished vision of a free people engaged in the peaceful pursuit of happiness.
Grandmother, Sarah Catherine Smith, affectionately known to her descendants as "Mammie", occupied a very large niche in the hearts of her grandchildren.
SOURCE: Letter from C. T. Young, Plant City, Florida, June 24, 1934.
Sarah Catherine Smith married, Oct. 21, 1846, Itawamba Co, MS #1 John Gideon Thompson, after his death in 1860 she married, Nov. 25, 1880, Lee Co, MS #2 Robert Caldwell Richey.
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As a little girl, Sarah Catherine Smith came with her parents to the new home north of where Old Campbellton now is and a short distance from Old Carrollville. The country had but recently been vacated by the Indians and a certain amount of disorder and confusion reigned everywhere. Scant progress had been made in erection of schools, organization of churches and the orderly enforcement of law. It was truly a new country. As was to be expected, educational advantages were limited, but such as were to be had, she enjoyed and made the most of.
Sarah Catherine, inexpressibly saddened by the death of her husband, gathered two young girls and a little boy about her with the quiet determination of one who always succeeds, and in that clam preceding the outbreak of the Civil War began the struggle for existence and the education of her children.
Years later, with schooling finished and those children grown up, happily remarried.
After a life of useful service, loyalty and unselfish devotion to her family and her friends, Sarah Catherine Smith sank into the last sleep at the home of her daughter, Mattive Kennedy of Saltillo, MS on May 8, 1913.
Her days had been largely filled with the management of her farm and the care of her family. The loss of her father at a tender age and her husbands after but a comparitively few years of married life had made her the shepardess of her flock and not for some years was she able to relax and enjoy the freedom from business cares and responsibilities which in those days was considered woman's rightful heritage.
She was of the sturdy stock that has reclaimed the wilderness, fought down obstacles, overcome dangers and spread out across the horizon the realization of that cherished vision of a free people engaged in the peaceful pursuit of happiness.
Grandmother, Sarah Catherine Smith, affectionately known to her descendants as "Mammie", occupied a very large niche in the hearts of her grandchildren.
SOURCE: Letter from C. T. Young, Plant City, Florida, June 24, 1934.
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As a little girl, Sarah Catherine Smith came with her parents to the new home north of where Old Campbellton now is and a short distance from Old Carrollville. The country had but recently been vacated by the Indians and a certain amount of disorder and confusion reigned everywhere. Scant progress had been made in erection of schools, organization of churches and the orderly enforcement of law. It was truly a new country. As was to be expected, educational advantages were limited, but such as were to be had, she enjoyed and made the most of.
Sarah Catherine, inexpressibly saddened by the death of her husband, gathered two young girls and a little boy about her with the quiet determination of one who always succeeds, and in that clam preceding the outbreak of the Civil War began the struggle for existence and the education of her children.
Years later, with schooling finished and those children grown up, happily remarried.
After a life of useful service, loyalty and unselfish devotion to her family and her friends, Sarah Catherine Smith sank into the last sleep at the home of her daughter, Mattive Kennedy of Saltillo, MS on May 8, 1913.
Her days had been largely filled with the management of her farm and the care of her family. The loss of her father at a tender age and her husbands after but a comparitively few years of married life had made her the shepardess of her flock and not for some years was she able to relax and enjoy the freedom from business cares and responsibilities which in those days was considered woman's rightful heritage.
She was of the sturdy stock that has reclaimed the wilderness, fought down obstacles, overcome dangers and spread out across the horizon the realization of that cherished vision of a free people engaged in the peaceful pursuit of happiness.
Grandmother, Sarah Catherine Smith, affectionately known to her descendants as "Mammie", occupied a very large niche in the hearts of her grandchildren.
SOURCE: Letter from C. T. Young, Plant City, Florida, June 24, 1934.
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