Susan Dabney Smedes

Memorials of a Southern Planter (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) Susan Dabney Smedes Illustrated edition

Susan nee Dabney Smedes (1840-1913) was an author, born in Raymond, Mississippi. She was the daughter of Thomas S. Dabney who was a rich planter. When she was twenty years of age, she married Lyell Smedes, but was left a widow about three months afterward. Smedes and her sisters originated and supported the Bishop Green training-school at Dry Grove, Mississippi. After her father's death in 1885, Smedes decided to write Memorials of a Southern Planter, a chronicle of his life. In 1887 she was appointed a teacher in the Government Indian School in Rosebud agency, Dakota territory.