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About Mourning Smith
Birth and death information listed about Mourning (Bearden) & William Smith came from Finid-A-Grave online.
Researcher Samuel Minter (abulsme@@abulsme.com) lists the birth location for Mourning Bearden as Granville Co., NC, British Empire. Samuel also provided names of the children listed.
Other information provided by Samuel via Minnie Mourning Smith via "Southern Lineages" by Adeline Evans Winn via "Preserving the Past" by Irene Bearden Keller via Rootsweb "Trail - Lassus - Hartley": "Now my grandmother was Mourning Bearden, daughter of John and Lettice Winn Bearden. She was born June 15, 1753, as recorded in my grandfather William Smith's old Bible. Lettice Gowen was my grandmother Smith's sister. My Grandmother Smith was so annoyed by the Tories during the Revolutionary War that in her husband's absence, she had to leave home and live with her sister, Lettice Gowen, during the latter years of the war. This is where she lived when she married my grandfather She became a member of Friendship Baptist Church in September of 1802 along with her brothers John and Richard."
From "The Winns of Fairfield County" via WINN-L: "Mourning Smith, wife of William Smith Esq. and daughter of Lettice Bearden, in an unusual display of liberality, was allowed to join Friendship Baptist Church without being baptised again, although she had been raised a Methodist."
In William Smith's Will, his wife Mourning was given "possession and full use of" a number of slaves (as well as some household furniture and supplies) until her death at which time they would be distributed to various of their children.
Per the Find-A-Grave listing, the following is inscribed on the tombstone of Mourning Bearden Smith: "Sacred to the Memory of Mourning Smith w/o Maj. William Smith. Who departed this life Oct. 2nd 1842 Aged 79 Yrs. 3 mos. and 17 Ds. She was an old and steadfast member of the Baptist Church, was eminently distinguished for observance of Christian duties, And her disenterested (sic) beneovolence secured the warm affectations of all acquainted with her. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=26730637
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Mourning Smith's Timeline
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June 15, 1763
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Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States
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| 1781 |
January 12, 1781
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Pauline, Spartanburg, SC, United States
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June 6, 1783
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Spartanburg, SC, United States
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October 31, 1784
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Pauline, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States
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December 1787
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Pauline, Spartanburg, SC, United States
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1790
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Pauline, Spartanburg, SC, United States
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| 1792 |
April 29, 1792
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Pauline, Spartanburg, SC, United States
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1794
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Pauline, Spartanburg, SC, United States
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| 1795 |
January 24, 1795
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Pauline, Spartanburg, SC, United States
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