The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-21
A Tennessee Matron Gone.

We find in the 50. Louis Republican the fol-
lowing notice of the demise of Mrs. CYNTHIA
D. SMITH, relict of the late Gen. Tn. A. Smith
Of Saline county, Missouri. She died recently
in Virginia, nearly seventy years old, at the
residence of her son-in-law, Mr.. Berkeley, Of
Aide. The writer, in his just tribute to the
character of this remarkable woman, says:
''Mrs Smith was gifted by nature or education,
or both, with a manner--an address-the most en-
gazing it had been my fortune to observe. Cheer
ful and at times gay in her temperament, spnghuy
and animated in conversation, full of the varied in
formation which a long intercourse with society
in various forms and at various places, and re-
markable powers of observation and reflection had
furnished her, she was the admired ornament Of the
large circle of family and friends by which she
was so fortunate to be surrounded during large
portion of her long life She had no pretension to
learning, yet there were few topics on which she
was not intelligent listener and where she could
not offer valuable suggestions to the learned. Born
and nurtured in East Tennessee, when that country
was a wilderness-when her father, General White
Ian early pioneer from North Carolina superintend
ed his farming pursuits with rife on his should r
and when the most ordinary excursions from their
fortified dwellings were attended with danger and
needed armed protection from the savage, it is not
probable that the supposed benefits OF modern or
ancient female school system swere ever within her
reach. Married to a soldier IN early youth, fifteen
years of her life were spent in military garrison
Her book learning was, in truth, limited to the BIZ
bic and few favorite works of her theological
school, yet the younger generation, who enjoy all
the advantages of the most approved systems of
education, will do we'll il they attain the fasci-
nation of manner the same faculty OF pleasing
which this lady possessed up to a very advanced
period of lite
"To the comfort and happiness of the domestic
circle nothing contributes so much as skillful man
agement of all the varied branches of household
economy. The most brilliant capacity and the
most shining attanments avail nothing If this is
wanting. In this respect ali her acquaintance
will readily yield the palm to Mrs. Smith, No one
who ever visited the hospitabe mansion of her hus
band could fail to notice the quiet noiseless regular
ity with which every branch OF domestic economy
was conducted. She possessed = tact and skill in
such matters which certainly was never urpassedi
and is too rarely equaled.
ITO those qualities, so conducive TO the happi
ness of that sphere where womans influence is most
felt, Mrs. Smith added all those essential virtues
which adorn the wife, the mother, and the head Of
large family In all these relations she sustained
herself with prudence, sagacity and good temper.
Her disposition cheerful TO the last and in ear
ly life had been gay; and she bore with wonderful
equanmity series oil affections sufficient to crush
sterner heart But she was Christain-a Pres.
byterian-and had been a member of this church
from her earliest youth. and, although totally de.
void of all sectarian bigotry, devotedy attach
ed TO the creed of her lorefathers and herself
"Mrs. Smith was born in the vicinity of Knox
vile, the farmceupied by her late distinguished
brother, Judge White, at the time of his death;
and she has survived all her brothers and sisters
except Mrs. Overflow of Nashville"