Download or read book Memorials of a Southern Planter (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) written by Susan Dabney Smedes and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.