(Same stone with Sammie, "Mother & Son")
Photo# 191
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Maiden name was McFerrin, my second great-grandmother. Died of a broken heart three days after the accidental drowning in the St. Francis river of her youngest son, Sammie.
Thanks to Wayne Durham for the above information rec'd 11/09.
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Eliza McFerrin Smith Gilliland. She married Rev. Noah Smith and they had two daughters, Mary Frances Smith and Almyra Smith. Almyra married Rev. Edmund Williams. Mary Frances Smith married Rev. Edward R. Barcus.
After Rev. Noah Smith's death, Eliza married Samuel Emory Gilliland !804-1856. The following story has been written about her death: "Her youngest son, a lad of about sixteen, came in from school one afternoon, and putting his books on the table, told the servant to tell his mother that he had gone to the river to swim. In a short while, a runner came to the house and reported that the lad was drowned. His mother started and ran towards the river until she fell with a ruptured blood vessel and died. She and her son were buried in the same grave."
Hope this is of interest,
TB Willis
contributor #47102556 Feb 2013
Photo# 191
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Maiden name was McFerrin, my second great-grandmother. Died of a broken heart three days after the accidental drowning in the St. Francis river of her youngest son, Sammie.
Thanks to Wayne Durham for the above information rec'd 11/09.
************
Eliza McFerrin Smith Gilliland. She married Rev. Noah Smith and they had two daughters, Mary Frances Smith and Almyra Smith. Almyra married Rev. Edmund Williams. Mary Frances Smith married Rev. Edward R. Barcus.
After Rev. Noah Smith's death, Eliza married Samuel Emory Gilliland !804-1856. The following story has been written about her death: "Her youngest son, a lad of about sixteen, came in from school one afternoon, and putting his books on the table, told the servant to tell his mother that he had gone to the river to swim. In a short while, a runner came to the house and reported that the lad was drowned. His mother started and ran towards the river until she fell with a ruptured blood vessel and died. She and her son were buried in the same grave."
Hope this is of interest,
TB Willis
contributor #47102556 Feb 2013
(Same stone with Sammie, "Mother & Son")
Photo# 191
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Maiden name was McFerrin, my second great-grandmother. Died of a broken heart three days after the accidental drowning in the St. Francis river of her youngest son, Sammie.
Thanks to Wayne Durham for the above information rec'd 11/09.
************
Eliza McFerrin Smith Gilliland. She married Rev. Noah Smith and they had two daughters, Mary Frances Smith and Almyra Smith. Almyra married Rev. Edmund Williams. Mary Frances Smith married Rev. Edward R. Barcus.
After Rev. Noah Smith's death, Eliza married Samuel Emory Gilliland !804-1856. The following story has been written about her death: "Her youngest son, a lad of about sixteen, came in from school one afternoon, and putting his books on the table, told the servant to tell his mother that he had gone to the river to swim. In a short while, a runner came to the house and reported that the lad was drowned. His mother started and ran towards the river until she fell with a ruptured blood vessel and died. She and her son were buried in the same grave."
Hope this is of interest,
TB Willis
contributor #47102556 Feb 2013
Photo# 191
****************
Maiden name was McFerrin, my second great-grandmother. Died of a broken heart three days after the accidental drowning in the St. Francis river of her youngest son, Sammie.
Thanks to Wayne Durham for the above information rec'd 11/09.
************
Eliza McFerrin Smith Gilliland. She married Rev. Noah Smith and they had two daughters, Mary Frances Smith and Almyra Smith. Almyra married Rev. Edmund Williams. Mary Frances Smith married Rev. Edward R. Barcus.
After Rev. Noah Smith's death, Eliza married Samuel Emory Gilliland !804-1856. The following story has been written about her death: "Her youngest son, a lad of about sixteen, came in from school one afternoon, and putting his books on the table, told the servant to tell his mother that he had gone to the river to swim. In a short while, a runner came to the house and reported that the lad was drowned. His mother started and ran towards the river until she fell with a ruptured blood vessel and died. She and her son were buried in the same grave."
Hope this is of interest,
TB Willis
contributor #47102556 Feb 2013
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