Animus Anna Smith

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Mrs. Anna (Bull) Smith was a highly cultivated and intellectual lady, possessed of those strong womanly traits of character so necessary in troublesome times. "Hackwood Park" was the hospitable rendezvous for the patriotic statesmen and warriors of that period... The correspondence of Gen'l Smith includes letters from the President of the Continental Congress, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Harrison, Wythe, Henry, and of the Generals Wood, Stephens, Charles Lee, Gates, and Dark...

[Mrs. Anna Bull Smith] would never tell the date of her birth; said, when asked, that she was as old as her eyes, and a little older than her teeth. Notwithstanding this peculiarity, she was a woman of more than ordinary business capacity and literary ability.

It is said that Mrs. Anna Smith not only educated but started in life fifty children besides her own, and some of Gen'l and Mrs. Smith's misfortune has been attributed to the open hand with which she dealt out her charity.