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Cemetery:           Anthony Garnett Smith, Sr. Family Cemetery
Name:               Mary "Polly" Allen [Whole Marker] Smith

Date Of Photograph: November 26, 2012
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Mary "Polly" Allen Smith:

Birth:  Dec. 21, 1777
Hanover County
Virginia
Death:  Apr. 19, 1857
Monroe County
Georgia

Mary "Polly" Allen Smith was born December 21, 1777 in Hanover County, 
Virginia and later died April 19, 1857. She married Rev. Anthony Garnett 
Smith, Sr. on January 19, 1797. She and her husband are buried at the A. G. 
Smith family cemetery near their home in Crawford County, GA. She was the 
daughter of Daniel Allen (1728-1807) and Johanna Read/Reed Hill. Daniel Allen 
was a veteran of the American Revolution.

In The Southern Christian Advocate on July 9,(?) 1857 appears the following 
obituary:

Mrs. Mary Smith died, April 19 at the residence of her son Rev. Wesley F. 
[Fletcher] Smith in Monroe County, Ga. in her 80th year.
She was the widow of Rev. Anthony G. Smith, daughter of Daniel Allen, of 
Cumberland County, Va., sister of the late Maj. Daniel A. Allen, of Pike 
County Ga., half sister of the late Dr. Hill & Rev. Cary Allen of the 
Presbyterian Church. For 54 years she had been a member of the M.[Methodist] E.
[Episcopal] Church & a professor of religion; in her daily walk, adoring the 
doctrine of GOD her SAVIOR. Previous to her last sickness she exhibited that 
anxious patience of soul peculiar to the aged saint, anxious for her release, 
yet patiently waiting on the will of GOD. After she was stricken down by 
disease, and in daily expectation of death, the same sweet serenity of soul 
was manifested; the same calm, unfaltering trust in her Redeemer. In reply to 
a remark by the writer that one in youth and health might perhaps journey, but 
its power was needed in the hour through which she was now passing, she 
remarked, the veterans eye kindling with baby fire as she spoke – "O no, my 
son you are mistaken, I have tried the religion of JESUS for 54 years, and it 
is the best all the way through. It has blessed me in prosperity and health, 
strengthened me in sorrow, and trial, and now in death it is my all in all". 
With her own hands she closed her eyes and mouth, and "as gently shuts the 
eyes of day", she fell asleep in JESUS. "Thanks be to GOD, which giveth us the 
victory through our LORD JESUS CHRIST". 
-F. X. FOSTER


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