Smith - Aunt Mandy (b slave) - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Aunt Mandy Smith, aged about 90 years, died last night at the home of her grandson-in-law, Dick Jones, on Oak Hill. Aunt Mandy was brought to Crawfordsville in 1835 from Kentucky by the Inlows. She lived here ever since and had the good fortune during her life to marry two members of the Smith family. The first of these was Judge Peter Smith, a celebrated colored preacher. He was a native African and had been kidnapped on the coast during his youth. He never rid himself entirely of his native speech but spoke a lingo differing from that of the common southern negro.

Aunt Mandy was a good old soul, who worked hard and lived an upright life. She washed for John Bishop’s family for eighteen years and during that time they never had a complaint to make. The funeral occurred this afternoon at three o’clock, the interment being in the Old Town Cemetery, where her former master and mistress are buried.