4 books in one book about a courageous pioneer, her ancestors and
her descendants from the 1600s to the 1900s -- their accomplishments and
defeats, their loves and their losses, as well as several murders and a
disappearance! -- Obedience (Fort) Smith was born in Edgecombe County,
North Carolina in 1771 when her grandfather was a member of the House of
Burgesses before the American Revolution. Twenty years later her
father, Elias Fort, led a group of 100 over the newly opened road to the
Cumberland Territory. They became the backbone of the Primitive or
Particular Red River Baptist Church in the area of Adams and Port Royal,
Tennessee at its border with Kentucky. -- At 20 she married widower
Maj. David Smith of Wadesboro, North Carolina.
Hardcover book in very good condition.