She was a daughter of David Lowry Swain and his wife Eleanor Hope White Swain. Her father was a former North Carolina Governor and was the long-time President of the University of North Carolina.
At the close of the Civil War, she shocked many citizens of the university town of Chapel Hill, NC when she married a Union Brigadier General, Smith D. Atkins. General Atkins was an officer with the Union occupation troops in Chapel Hill. They married in August of 1865 in Chapel Hill.
The couple lived in Freeport, Illinois where her husband was Postmaster and a newspaper editor. She took ill and died suddenly on a visit to Raleigh, N.C. and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh near her parents.
Three children survived her: Smith Dykins Atkins, Jr., Eleanor H. "Dot" Atkins and Susan W. Atkins. Some of the information about her family comes from the case of Clark v. Atkins decided by the N.C. Supreme Court in 1884 and from the book "Undaunted Heart: The True Story of a Southern Belle and a Yankee General" (Suzy Barile 2009).
At the close of the Civil War, she shocked many citizens of the university town of Chapel Hill, NC when she married a Union Brigadier General, Smith D. Atkins. General Atkins was an officer with the Union occupation troops in Chapel Hill. They married in August of 1865 in Chapel Hill.
The couple lived in Freeport, Illinois where her husband was Postmaster and a newspaper editor. She took ill and died suddenly on a visit to Raleigh, N.C. and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh near her parents.
Three children survived her: Smith Dykins Atkins, Jr., Eleanor H. "Dot" Atkins and Susan W. Atkins. Some of the information about her family comes from the case of Clark v. Atkins decided by the N.C. Supreme Court in 1884 and from the book "Undaunted Heart: The True Story of a Southern Belle and a Yankee General" (Suzy Barile 2009).
She was a daughter of David Lowry Swain and his wife Eleanor Hope White Swain. Her father was a former North Carolina Governor and was the long-time President of the University of North Carolina.
At the close of the Civil War, she shocked many citizens of the university town of Chapel Hill, NC when she married a Union Brigadier General, Smith D. Atkins. General Atkins was an officer with the Union occupation troops in Chapel Hill. They married in August of 1865 in Chapel Hill.
The couple lived in Freeport, Illinois where her husband was Postmaster and a newspaper editor. She took ill and died suddenly on a visit to Raleigh, N.C. and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh near her parents.
Three children survived her: Smith Dykins Atkins, Jr., Eleanor H. "Dot" Atkins and Susan W. Atkins. Some of the information about her family comes from the case of Clark v. Atkins decided by the N.C. Supreme Court in 1884 and from the book "Undaunted Heart: The True Story of a Southern Belle and a Yankee General" (Suzy Barile 2009).
At the close of the Civil War, she shocked many citizens of the university town of Chapel Hill, NC when she married a Union Brigadier General, Smith D. Atkins. General Atkins was an officer with the Union occupation troops in Chapel Hill. They married in August of 1865 in Chapel Hill.
The couple lived in Freeport, Illinois where her husband was Postmaster and a newspaper editor. She took ill and died suddenly on a visit to Raleigh, N.C. and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh near her parents.
Three children survived her: Smith Dykins Atkins, Jr., Eleanor H. "Dot" Atkins and Susan W. Atkins. Some of the information about her family comes from the case of Clark v. Atkins decided by the N.C. Supreme Court in 1884 and from the book "Undaunted Heart: The True Story of a Southern Belle and a Yankee General" (Suzy Barile 2009).
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