Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Susan Richardson, 1845 

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SUSAN RICHARDSON SMITH

MRS. SUSAN SMITH

   Died in Suffolk, on the 29th January last [1845?*], Mrs. Susan Smith, wife 
of Arthur Smith, of that place.

   Sister Smith was the daughter of Archibald and Christian Richardson, who 
were residents of Suffolk, in the memorial year of 1780.  In that year, while 
her father was absent with the American Army, the British Army succeeded in 
burning the town of Suffolk.  Mr. Richardson’s family fled for safety to the 
adjoining state of North Carolina, where his daughter Susan was born.  As soon 
as her father could re-build his house, he returned with his family to 
Suffolk, where Sister Smith resided to the time of her death.  She lived a 
stranger to the converting grace of God, seeking her happiness in the 
pleasures of the world, until the revival of religion, which commenced in 
Suffolk the latter part of the year 1822 - on the 27th of May, 1826, she 
attached herself to the M.E. Church, in Suffolk, of which she continued an 
acceptable member to the time of her death.  The Wednesday before her death 
she met with the sewing society of Suffolk, of which she was a member, and 
appeared to be in usual health, but so uncertain is life.  The next Wednesday 
her funeral was preached in the same room.

   Sister Smith has left an affectionate husband, a son and two daughters to 
lament their loss- A.E.S.


Susan (RICHARDSON; Mrs. Arthur) SMITH, 
b. 1781, NC, d. 29* Jan 1845, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Cemetery list gives d. 28 Jan; formerly gave 1815. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_s.txt 

29 Jan 1845 was a Wednesday - the day of the funeral. 

for more on this family, and portraits of the family, see: 
   Norfleet, Fillmore. 
   "Suffolk in Virginia, c. 1795-1840 : 
    a record of lots, lives, and likenesses." 
   1974. (LVA Call Number F234.S9 N56) 
   note 100, pp. 110-11; portraits, Portfolio A. 

Her son, Dr. Arthur Richardson SMITH (1805-1865), is buried in 
   Cedar Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth - Row 2, Plot 139. 
   Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives, Cedar Grove list: 
   http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/portsmouth/cemeteries/cgcem2.html 

Both the Cedar Grove list and Find a Grave (Mem. #37652294) give Arthur B. 


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