Smith - Amanda - 1893
ource: Weekly Argus News, March 18, 1893 p 8
Aunt Amanda Smith, an aged negress, died yesterday afternoon at her home at the top of the hill leading to Oak Hill Cemetery. Death was due to rheumatism from which she has long suffered. Aunt Amanda was a devout and consistent member of the AME Church and being often brought in contact had many friends among the white population. She was born in slavery in Kentucky about 90 years ago, as best she could calculate, and was brought to Crawfordsville and given her freedom by the Inlows in 1828. Her first husband was "Judge" Peter Smith, an AME preacher, whom many of our older citizens remember. Smith was born in Africa but was kidnapped when quite young and shipped to America on a trading vessel. He drifted around, picking up a fair education here and there and finally gained his freedom and settled here, where he was looked upon as quite an eloquent expounder in his day. Mrs. Smith leaves two children. The funeral services were conducted at the AME Church at 3 o'clock this afternoon. -- kbz