TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,H.G.
AU  - Southern,David
TI  - Miss Mary's money: fortune and misfortune in a North Carolina plantation family, 1760-1924 
SN  - 9781476619873
AV  - F262.C4 J66 2014
U1  - 975.6/590340922 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Jefferson, North Carolina
PB  - McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
KW  - Jones, Francis,
KW  - Smith, Mary Ruffin,
KW  - Plantation owners
KW  - North Carolina
KW  - Chatham County
KW  - Biography
KW  - Orange County
KW  - Plantations
KW  - History
KW  - Land grants
KW  - Beneficiaries
KW  - Propriétaires de plantations
KW  - Caroline du Nord
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Orange
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Bénéficiaires
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - State & Local
KW  - South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
KW  - fast
KW  - Families
KW  - Chatham County (N.C.)
KW  - Orange County (N.C.)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface: "The wealthy old lady" -- Landed grandfather : Francis Jones (1760-1844) -- Profligate father : Congressman James Strudwick Smith (1787-1852) -- Boozing politician son : James Sidney Smith (1819-1867) -- Lecherous doctor son : Francis Jones Smith (1816-1877) -- Saintly daughter : Mary Ruffin Smith (1814-1885) -- Beneficiaries : church and state -- Warring Episcopalians: the battle for Price Creek -- Saving St. Mary's School -- Healing the wounds : the Chapel of the Cross -- Cleaning up, warming up, and lighting up the university -- End of the trail
N2  - "The Smith fortune was made by Mary's grandfather, Revolutionary War veteran Francis Jones, and survived the profligacy of his son-in-law, Dr. James Smith, before being willed to the university and the North Carolina Episcopal diocese. Hundreds of descendants have been virtually ignored. This book, the result of eight years of research, is for them"--
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