James Smith
b. 19 October 1777
d. 22 May 1852
Aged 74 years 7 months 8 days
Mary "Polly" Gathings Smith
b. 6 December 1787
d. 17 Jan 1859
MARY SMITH, relict of James Smith, was born Dec. 6, 1787, and died in Anson County, North Carolina, (near Olivet Church) January 17, 1859, aged 71 years, one month and eleven days.
For sixteen years she was an acceptable member of the Methodist Church. Strongly adverse to affection in any form, especially in religion, her profession was far short of the possessed reality. Social conversation with her on personal religion , evinced more and more her modest aversion to pretence, and her possession of reality. On her own confession the fear of claiming the title subtracted at times from the legitimate joy and peace of the blessedness of a hope of Heaven. Her practical knowledge, industrious an economical habits, tons of morals, sense of propriety, her freedom from affection, all underlaid with an excellent judgment , well fitted her for the several relations of life which she sustained, especially that which she so well performed, the training of her children, She had the satisfaction to see the living nine, of her twelve children, grown to adult age, respectable and useful and nearly all members of the church. In sorrowing over their loss, which is her gain, they "raise up and call her blessed." From the first of her illness, which was only of five days' continuance, she said she would nor survive, With her usual discretion and calmness she gave directions concerning a few items of business, then dismissing all thought about the cares of the world, she committed her soul to her Saviour, and rational to the last, she suffered in patience and died in peace.
[Book "Type Talk of Lilesville Township, Anson County, N. C.", by Emma Goodwin, page 13] [3]
James and Polly Gathings were marrried about 1801, James Smith was the son of John Smith and Mary Flake. Mary "Polly" Gathings was a daughter of Phillip Gathings and his wife Haney [LNU].
James and Polly had 12 children; 6 sons and 6 daughters.
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[1] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed January 2008); Memorial page for James Smith; (19 October 1777–22 May 1852); Find a Grave memorial # 89150262, Citing Smith Cemetery; Lilesvile, Anson County, North Carolina.
[2] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed January 2008); Memorial page for Mary Gathings Smith; (6 December 1787–7 January 1859); Find a Grave memorial # 89150348, Citing Smith Cemetery; Lilesvile, Anson County, North Carolina.
[3] Emma Goodwin, Type Talk [I] of Lilesville Township: Anson County, North Carolina (Charlotte, North Carolina: Herb Eaton Historical Publication, 1990), page 13.
[4] William Thomas Smith William Alexander Smith, Osmer D. Flake, W. T. Smith, Family Tree Book: genealogical and biographical, listing the relatives of General William Alexander Smith and of W. Thomas Smith (Anson County, North Carolina: Published by the authors, 1922), page 80.
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