The Genealogy of David L. Moody & Yvonne L. La Pointe. - Person Sheet
The Genealogy of David L. Moody & Yvonne L. La Pointe. - Person Sheet
Birthbef 4 Apr 1821 ®240
Baptism4 Apr 1821, Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, USA ®129
MemoFirst Presbyterian Church
Death14 Feb 1887 ®1891
Burial1887, Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, USA ®1891
MemoCottage Cemetery
FatherGilbert LONGSTREET SR (1783-1851)
MotherMartha Henrietta “Henny” EVE (1792-1833)
Never married
Misc. Notes
She she never married, ®1893 died at the age of 66, ®1891 and left her fortune to her brother, Dr. Anderson Longstreet’s children.
by a lady 80 years of age
Mrs. Emma Eve Smith (1798 - 1882)
copied by Mrs. Mary E. Miller Eve 1907
transcribed by Patricia E. Kruger 1994
"About seven years ago (circa 1871), my niece Hannah Longstreet concluded to open the Cottage which had been (sic) unoccupied for years and was much out of repair. She collected all the old furniture, the remains of the china, glass etc and fixed up the dear old house of fathers with every comfort and attraction and I came to live with her.
The house Sister Adams had built in the front of this was burned down in 1862. Here I stayed two winters or more occasionally returning home for several months at a time. We had sweet days and I enjoyed the intercourse with my old associates and friends, very much.
Hannah's health failed and she did not feel able to keep up the place, much as we all desired it. Her nerves received a dreadful shock too which destroyed all the sweet repose of the place. While sleeping by my side one night she heard some one sawing at the window blind of the pastor and jumping up she opened her window on the piazza and rang a bell to call her servants from the yard. Just then a man ran towards her and said (with a pistol in his hand) "I'll kill you" "You dare not" she replied. "God is in this house and you dare not". and she immediately commenced singing in a very loud voice, a hymn of praise.
All was still outside and we dressed, built a large fire and sat there till daylight not knowing where our enemy was. In the morning we found two men had been there and had left at the window a large club. Nothing more was ever discovered as to who they were or what they wanted. " ®1893
by a lady 80 years of age
Mrs. Emma Eve Smith (1798 - 1882)
copied by Mrs. Mary E. Miller Eve 1907
transcribed by Patricia E. Kruger 1994
"About seven years ago (circa 1871), my niece Hannah Longstreet concluded to open the Cottage which had been (sic) unoccupied for years and was much out of repair. She collected all the old furniture, the remains of the china, glass etc and fixed up the dear old house of fathers with every comfort and attraction and I came to live with her.
The house Sister Adams had built in the front of this was burned down in 1862. Here I stayed two winters or more occasionally returning home for several months at a time. We had sweet days and I enjoyed the intercourse with my old associates and friends, very much.
Hannah's health failed and she did not feel able to keep up the place, much as we all desired it. Her nerves received a dreadful shock too which destroyed all the sweet repose of the place. While sleeping by my side one night she heard some one sawing at the window blind of the pastor and jumping up she opened her window on the piazza and rang a bell to call her servants from the yard. Just then a man ran towards her and said (with a pistol in his hand) "I'll kill you" "You dare not" she replied. "God is in this house and you dare not". and she immediately commenced singing in a very loud voice, a hymn of praise.
All was still outside and we dressed, built a large fire and sat there till daylight not knowing where our enemy was. In the morning we found two men had been there and had left at the window a large club. Nothing more was ever discovered as to who they were or what they wanted. " ®1893