Joanna (Dillon) Smith (1778 - abt. 1869)

Born 23 Aug 1778 in Bertie County, North Carolina, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Jeremiah Smith — married 16 Dec 1798 in Bertie, North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died about 28 May 1869 at about age 90 in Pike Co. MS

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Biography

Joanna was born in 1778. Joanna Dillon ... She passed away in 1821. ^[1]

"Joanna," wife of Jeremiah Smith, is often claimed as a daughter of Richard Dillon, but there is no clear evidence for that relationship. A few considerations are in order. (1) She is not shown in the Richard Dillon Bible Record, as cited above. (2) She is not named in Luke Ward Conerly's 1909 "Pike County, Mississippi: 1798-1876" as a daughter of Richard Dillon. Conerly identified "Clarkston," Clara (wife of George Smith), Willis, "Theopholis," and "Laurence" as children of Richard Dillon (pp 82, 87). From the narrative on pp 87-8, we may deduce that Conerly knew some of the children of Clara Dillon and George Smith. Since Conerly noted that George Smith was a brother to Jeremiah Smith (p 88), it seems strange that he would not have enumerated Joanna "Dillon" as a sister to Clara, had that been the case. (3) Finally, in the autobiography of Walter Edwin Tynes, a grandson of Jeremiah and Joanna, Walter Tynes gave his grandmother Joanna's maiden name as "Holly;" see Walter Edwin Tynes, "My Pilgrimage," 1993 reprint (originally published 1928), 7.

I have been unable to determine the origin of the tradition that Joanna was Richard's daughter. The earliest printed claim to that effect of which I am aware is Russ Williams' 1978 addendum to Conerly's Pike County history, on p 118 of said addendum. I repeated the claim in my "A Patriot's Legacy: The Family of Richard Dillon and Ann Lawrence" (2002). I now consider this to have been an error.

Bevin Creel^[2]

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Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Allan Thomas, Saturday, July 20, 2013.
2. ↑ https://familysearch.org/photos/stories/7934923

• Source: S564260038 U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
• Source: S564260201 Web: Mississippi, Find A Grave Index, 1798-2012 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry Operations, Inc.
• Source: S564260202 South Carolina Marriage Index, 1641-1965 Hunting For Bears, comp. Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
• Find A Grave Memorial# 35740899

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Allan Thomas for creating Dillon-675 on 20 Jul 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Allan and others.