Susan C. née Dabney Smedes (August 20, 1840July 4, 1913) was a teacher, newspaper correspondent, and author who wrote about her father's plantation. She was born in

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, the eighth child of Thomas S. Dabney, a wealthy plantation owner, and Sophia Hill Dabney. She married Lyell Smedes who died a few months later, 16 Jan 1861. She and her sisters were benefactors of the Bishop Green training-school at

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where she taught. She moved with her family to Baltimore after their plantation, Burleigh, was lost to creditors. Her father died in 1885. She wrote ''Memorials of a Southern Planter'' about his life. It was published by Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey in 1887. In 1887 she became a teacher at the U.S. government's

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of the Rosebud Agency in Dakota Territory.

Fletcher Melvin Green Fletcher Melvin Green (1895 - 1978) was a historian and writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a faculty member from 1936 until 1960 and served as a department chair. The University has a collection of his papers. H ...

edited and wrote an introduction to a 1963 reissue of her book. Her brother Virginius Dabney was also a writer and the grandfather of

Virginius Dabney Virginius Dabney (February 8, 1901 – December 28, 1995) was an American teacher, journalist, and writer, who edited the ''Richmond Times-Dispatch ''from 1936 to 1969 and wrote several historical books. Dabney won the Pulitzer Prize for edito ...

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