Ann Eliza Smith was born in Brunswick county Virginia in 1824 or 1825, the daughter of Richard Smith and Ann Lett who married on 24 Nov 1823. Eliza's mother died around 1829, possibly due to complications from the birth of her daughter Mary J. Smith, b. 1829.
Richard Smith next married Rebecca Walton, daughter of David Ledbetter Walton and Rebecca Wyche on 19 Jan 1830 in Brunswick county Virginia and the family appears to have moved to Limestone County Alabama after 1833, settling near Harris Station in the south/southwest part of the county.
Ann Eliza married James D. Carpenter on 27 Feb 1845 in Limestone county and had one known child, Harriet Ann Carpenter, b. 1849. Ann and Harriet are listed in the household of Richard Smith in the 1850 census of Limestone county, both listed with the last name Smith instead of Carpenter.
On 20 Apr 1854, Ann Eliza Carpenter married a second time to David McCracken Elliott. He is listed as the jailor of Limestone county in the 1860 census. He was the son of John Henderson "One Eye" Elliott and the grandson of John B. Elliott and Jane "Mother Elliott" Kerr, both born in Enniskillen, County Armagh, Ireland.
David appears to have been seriously ill the last several years of his life, dying at age 38 after a protracted period of suffering from a combination of paralysis and "dropsy of the heart" (likely congestive heart failure).
After David M. Elliott died on 01 Dec 1868, it appears as if Limestone county allowed Ann E. to assume the duties of jailor, which, according to the attached article, she performed admirably, reportedly fending off a lynch mob who attacked the jail in 1868. She is listed as jailoress in the 1870 census of Limestone county Alabama.
On 07 Jul 1870, Ann Eliza married a third time to an up and coming Athens businessman, John H. Davis (Memorial 41497022), who was almost 20 years her junior. Davis had clerked in the store of Samuel Tanner, where he was in the 1870 census.
By the 1880 census, John and Ann Eliza are enumerated together in Athens, although her age is listed as ten years younger than she actually was. John H. Davis went on to be a prosperous merchant, cotton buyer, county treasurer and bank president.
On 23 Sep 1890, the death records of Limestone County Alabama list the death of Ann Davis in Athens Ward 1, a 66 year old white female born in Virginia from diabetes mellitus, burial in Athens.
After Ann's death in September 1890, John H. Davis remarried a widow, Virginia Martha Fraser McClellan on 06 January 1891. John died in June 1898 and Virginia moved to Tampa, Florida where she died in 1911 (Memorial 25638898).
The cemetery has no record of her burial here, but lot 189 where John H. Davis is buried has 7 other graves. Perhaps she is in one of those, but she is very likely somewhere in this cemetery.
Her full siblings were:
"Captain" William H. Smith (1826-1912)
Mary J. Smith Campbell (1830 - aft. 1870), married Thomas S. Campbell in 1848.
Half siblings (from Richard Smith & Rebecca Walton):
Martha Wyche Smith, (1833-1901), married Rev. James Benjamin Lentz in 1860.
Frances B. Smith, (1837-1863), married Howell C. Hicks in Prairie County Arkansas in 1861, and apparently died there around 1865.
Andrew Jackson Smith, b. 1839, died 11 Nov 1862 in Loudon Tennessee while serving with the Confederate army, 2nd Arkansas Mounted Infantry, Company C, the same regiment in which his brother William served. His estate was probated in Prairie county Arkansas with Howell Hicks as administrator.
Richard Smith next married Rebecca Walton, daughter of David Ledbetter Walton and Rebecca Wyche on 19 Jan 1830 in Brunswick county Virginia and the family appears to have moved to Limestone County Alabama after 1833, settling near Harris Station in the south/southwest part of the county.
Ann Eliza married James D. Carpenter on 27 Feb 1845 in Limestone county and had one known child, Harriet Ann Carpenter, b. 1849. Ann and Harriet are listed in the household of Richard Smith in the 1850 census of Limestone county, both listed with the last name Smith instead of Carpenter.
On 20 Apr 1854, Ann Eliza Carpenter married a second time to David McCracken Elliott. He is listed as the jailor of Limestone county in the 1860 census. He was the son of John Henderson "One Eye" Elliott and the grandson of John B. Elliott and Jane "Mother Elliott" Kerr, both born in Enniskillen, County Armagh, Ireland.
David appears to have been seriously ill the last several years of his life, dying at age 38 after a protracted period of suffering from a combination of paralysis and "dropsy of the heart" (likely congestive heart failure).
After David M. Elliott died on 01 Dec 1868, it appears as if Limestone county allowed Ann E. to assume the duties of jailor, which, according to the attached article, she performed admirably, reportedly fending off a lynch mob who attacked the jail in 1868. She is listed as jailoress in the 1870 census of Limestone county Alabama.
On 07 Jul 1870, Ann Eliza married a third time to an up and coming Athens businessman, John H. Davis (Memorial 41497022), who was almost 20 years her junior. Davis had clerked in the store of Samuel Tanner, where he was in the 1870 census.
By the 1880 census, John and Ann Eliza are enumerated together in Athens, although her age is listed as ten years younger than she actually was. John H. Davis went on to be a prosperous merchant, cotton buyer, county treasurer and bank president.
On 23 Sep 1890, the death records of Limestone County Alabama list the death of Ann Davis in Athens Ward 1, a 66 year old white female born in Virginia from diabetes mellitus, burial in Athens.
After Ann's death in September 1890, John H. Davis remarried a widow, Virginia Martha Fraser McClellan on 06 January 1891. John died in June 1898 and Virginia moved to Tampa, Florida where she died in 1911 (Memorial 25638898).
The cemetery has no record of her burial here, but lot 189 where John H. Davis is buried has 7 other graves. Perhaps she is in one of those, but she is very likely somewhere in this cemetery.
Her full siblings were:
"Captain" William H. Smith (1826-1912)
Mary J. Smith Campbell (1830 - aft. 1870), married Thomas S. Campbell in 1848.
Half siblings (from Richard Smith & Rebecca Walton):
Martha Wyche Smith, (1833-1901), married Rev. James Benjamin Lentz in 1860.
Frances B. Smith, (1837-1863), married Howell C. Hicks in Prairie County Arkansas in 1861, and apparently died there around 1865.
Andrew Jackson Smith, b. 1839, died 11 Nov 1862 in Loudon Tennessee while serving with the Confederate army, 2nd Arkansas Mounted Infantry, Company C, the same regiment in which his brother William served. His estate was probated in Prairie county Arkansas with Howell Hicks as administrator.
Ann Eliza Smith was born in Brunswick county Virginia in 1824 or 1825, the daughter of Richard Smith and Ann Lett who married on 24 Nov 1823. Eliza's mother died around 1829, possibly due to complications from the birth of her daughter Mary J. Smith, b. 1829.
Richard Smith next married Rebecca Walton, daughter of David Ledbetter Walton and Rebecca Wyche on 19 Jan 1830 in Brunswick county Virginia and the family appears to have moved to Limestone County Alabama after 1833, settling near Harris Station in the south/southwest part of the county.
Ann Eliza married James D. Carpenter on 27 Feb 1845 in Limestone county and had one known child, Harriet Ann Carpenter, b. 1849. Ann and Harriet are listed in the household of Richard Smith in the 1850 census of Limestone county, both listed with the last name Smith instead of Carpenter.
On 20 Apr 1854, Ann Eliza Carpenter married a second time to David McCracken Elliott. He is listed as the jailor of Limestone county in the 1860 census. He was the son of John Henderson "One Eye" Elliott and the grandson of John B. Elliott and Jane "Mother Elliott" Kerr, both born in Enniskillen, County Armagh, Ireland.
David appears to have been seriously ill the last several years of his life, dying at age 38 after a protracted period of suffering from a combination of paralysis and "dropsy of the heart" (likely congestive heart failure).
After David M. Elliott died on 01 Dec 1868, it appears as if Limestone county allowed Ann E. to assume the duties of jailor, which, according to the attached article, she performed admirably, reportedly fending off a lynch mob who attacked the jail in 1868. She is listed as jailoress in the 1870 census of Limestone county Alabama.
On 07 Jul 1870, Ann Eliza married a third time to an up and coming Athens businessman, John H. Davis (Memorial 41497022), who was almost 20 years her junior. Davis had clerked in the store of Samuel Tanner, where he was in the 1870 census.
By the 1880 census, John and Ann Eliza are enumerated together in Athens, although her age is listed as ten years younger than she actually was. John H. Davis went on to be a prosperous merchant, cotton buyer, county treasurer and bank president.
On 23 Sep 1890, the death records of Limestone County Alabama list the death of Ann Davis in Athens Ward 1, a 66 year old white female born in Virginia from diabetes mellitus, burial in Athens.
After Ann's death in September 1890, John H. Davis remarried a widow, Virginia Martha Fraser McClellan on 06 January 1891. John died in June 1898 and Virginia moved to Tampa, Florida where she died in 1911 (Memorial 25638898).
The cemetery has no record of her burial here, but lot 189 where John H. Davis is buried has 7 other graves. Perhaps she is in one of those, but she is very likely somewhere in this cemetery.
Her full siblings were:
"Captain" William H. Smith (1826-1912)
Mary J. Smith Campbell (1830 - aft. 1870), married Thomas S. Campbell in 1848.
Half siblings (from Richard Smith & Rebecca Walton):
Martha Wyche Smith, (1833-1901), married Rev. James Benjamin Lentz in 1860.
Frances B. Smith, (1837-1863), married Howell C. Hicks in Prairie County Arkansas in 1861, and apparently died there around 1865.
Andrew Jackson Smith, b. 1839, died 11 Nov 1862 in Loudon Tennessee while serving with the Confederate army, 2nd Arkansas Mounted Infantry, Company C, the same regiment in which his brother William served. His estate was probated in Prairie county Arkansas with Howell Hicks as administrator.
Richard Smith next married Rebecca Walton, daughter of David Ledbetter Walton and Rebecca Wyche on 19 Jan 1830 in Brunswick county Virginia and the family appears to have moved to Limestone County Alabama after 1833, settling near Harris Station in the south/southwest part of the county.
Ann Eliza married James D. Carpenter on 27 Feb 1845 in Limestone county and had one known child, Harriet Ann Carpenter, b. 1849. Ann and Harriet are listed in the household of Richard Smith in the 1850 census of Limestone county, both listed with the last name Smith instead of Carpenter.
On 20 Apr 1854, Ann Eliza Carpenter married a second time to David McCracken Elliott. He is listed as the jailor of Limestone county in the 1860 census. He was the son of John Henderson "One Eye" Elliott and the grandson of John B. Elliott and Jane "Mother Elliott" Kerr, both born in Enniskillen, County Armagh, Ireland.
David appears to have been seriously ill the last several years of his life, dying at age 38 after a protracted period of suffering from a combination of paralysis and "dropsy of the heart" (likely congestive heart failure).
After David M. Elliott died on 01 Dec 1868, it appears as if Limestone county allowed Ann E. to assume the duties of jailor, which, according to the attached article, she performed admirably, reportedly fending off a lynch mob who attacked the jail in 1868. She is listed as jailoress in the 1870 census of Limestone county Alabama.
On 07 Jul 1870, Ann Eliza married a third time to an up and coming Athens businessman, John H. Davis (Memorial 41497022), who was almost 20 years her junior. Davis had clerked in the store of Samuel Tanner, where he was in the 1870 census.
By the 1880 census, John and Ann Eliza are enumerated together in Athens, although her age is listed as ten years younger than she actually was. John H. Davis went on to be a prosperous merchant, cotton buyer, county treasurer and bank president.
On 23 Sep 1890, the death records of Limestone County Alabama list the death of Ann Davis in Athens Ward 1, a 66 year old white female born in Virginia from diabetes mellitus, burial in Athens.
After Ann's death in September 1890, John H. Davis remarried a widow, Virginia Martha Fraser McClellan on 06 January 1891. John died in June 1898 and Virginia moved to Tampa, Florida where she died in 1911 (Memorial 25638898).
The cemetery has no record of her burial here, but lot 189 where John H. Davis is buried has 7 other graves. Perhaps she is in one of those, but she is very likely somewhere in this cemetery.
Her full siblings were:
"Captain" William H. Smith (1826-1912)
Mary J. Smith Campbell (1830 - aft. 1870), married Thomas S. Campbell in 1848.
Half siblings (from Richard Smith & Rebecca Walton):
Martha Wyche Smith, (1833-1901), married Rev. James Benjamin Lentz in 1860.
Frances B. Smith, (1837-1863), married Howell C. Hicks in Prairie County Arkansas in 1861, and apparently died there around 1865.
Andrew Jackson Smith, b. 1839, died 11 Nov 1862 in Loudon Tennessee while serving with the Confederate army, 2nd Arkansas Mounted Infantry, Company C, the same regiment in which his brother William served. His estate was probated in Prairie county Arkansas with Howell Hicks as administrator.
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