Miss Mary's money : fortune and misfortune in a North Carolina plantation family, 1760-1924 / H.G. Jones with David Southern.
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TextPublisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781476619873
- 1476619875
- Jones, Francis, 1760-1844 -- Family
- Smith, Mary Ruffin, 1814-1885 -- Family
- Jones, Francis, 1760-1844
- Smith, Mary Ruffin, 1814-1885
- Plantation owners -- North Carolina -- Chatham County -- Biography
- Plantation owners -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Biography
- Plantations -- North Carolina -- History
- Land grants -- North Carolina -- History
- Beneficiaries -- North Carolina -- History
- Chatham County (N.C.) -- Biography
- Orange County (N.C.) -- Biography
- Propriétaires de plantations -- Caroline du Nord -- Chatham County -- Biographies
- Propriétaires de plantations -- Caroline du Nord -- Orange -- Biographies
- Plantations -- Caroline du Nord -- Histoire
- Bénéficiaires -- Caroline du Nord -- Histoire
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- Beneficiaries
- Families
- Land grants
- Plantation owners
- Plantations
- North Carolina
- North Carolina -- Chatham County
- North Carolina -- Orange County
- 975.6/590340922 23
- F262.C4 J66 2014
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
Added to collection customer.56279.3