Hattie Revis Reid Smith (far left side)
Left to right – Hattie Revis Reid Smith, Bertha Smith Chilton, Hattie Gayden Smith, Hague Smith, Eskridge E. Hefner and Lillie Reid Hefner.
Hattie Revis Reid Smith (right side)
Left to right – Sarah Barton Revis (mother of Hattie Revis Reid), Lillie Mae Reid Hefner, Hattie Revis Reid (mother of Lillie Reid Hefner). Dog is said to have belonged to Sarah Barton Revis.
Left to right – Hattie Revis Reid Smith, Bertha Smith Chilton, Hattie Gayden Smith, Hague Smith, Eskridge E. Hefner and Lillie Reid Hefner
According to Nancy Ponder Eggimann posted in Ancestry, “I wrote most of this information back in 2005. All the information came from family records and memories of my mother, Hazel Revis Ponder, niece of Hattie Revis (Reid) Smith.
Hattie Revis was the third child of John & Sarah Barton Revis. She was born Sept. 13, 1869. She had an older sister, Becky (Nov. 4, 1860), and an older brother, Tommy (Oct. 1, 1867). Eventually she had two younger sisters: Lela (June 30, 1872) and Mary (1873) and one more brother: Henry (July 1, 1877). The Revis family lived in the North Carolina mountains near the South Carolina state line (Zirconia/Tuxedo area). Hattie’s father, John Mitchell Revis was a farmer but was a Confederate soldier. He died in 1879 when his oldest daughter Becky, was nineteen and his youngest son, Henry, was two years old.
When Aunt Hattie was about twenty or twenty-one, she married Reuben Reid for whom I have no further information. Hattie gave birth to her first child, Lillie May on Feb. 7, 1890.
At some point Reuben Reid died. Hattie then married Edmund Manning Smith, a widower with one daughter, Bertha. Together Hattie & Manning had one son, Hugue Graham Smith born Sept. 7, 1899 and one daughter born January 8, 1905. They named her Eva Sue and sadly, she died December 6, 1908. I believe she died from scarlet fever. Hattie, Manning, & Hugue were living at “the old hotel” when they lost their baby girl. Lillie was with them as well. Manning Smith had been a Confederate soldier. He died at the age of seventy-two. He was buried in Springwood Cemetery in downtown Greenville, S.C. where his baby girl was buried but not near each other. His dates are 16 March 1846 – 3 Dec. 1918.
For most of her life Hattie lived with her mother, Sarah Barton Revis, in what they called “the old hotel.” While she suffered the death of two husbands, she was surrounded by family. By marrying Manning Smith, she brought his daughter, Bertha, into the Revis family. Bertha was close friends with Grace Revis Tannery and Hazel Revis Ponder (my aunt & mother). Bertha was also a half sister to Hugue Graham Smith; they had the same father. Aunt Hattie spent her elderly years with her daughter, Lillie Reid Hefner, in Hendersonville, N.C. Her step daughter, Bertha, continued to visit her in that location. Hattie died 26 Sept. 1950 at the age of eighty-one and was buried in Hendersonville, NC.” Written by Nancy Ponder Eggimann, submitted 13-Aug. 2012.
