Susan Rebecca BURT

     Susan Rebecca BURT, daughter of Martin Ross BURT and Delilah Anne GRIFFIS, was born on 17 December 1850 in Prattville, Autauga County, Alabama. She also went by the name of Sudie.

Susan Rebecca BURT appeared on a census, enumerated 10 July 1870, in the household of her mother Delilah Anne GRIFFIS in Prattville, Autauga County, Alabama. She was recorded as Susan Burt, age 19, without occupation.¹

Susan married William N. SMITH, son of Thomas Coke SMITH, on 20 December 1877 at the residence of the bride's mother in Prattville.^2,3

Sudie BURT witnessed the obituary of Harriett E. BURT on 6 November 1896 in the Prattville Progress. The article read: "Mrs. T. W. Smith and Mr. & Mrs. W. N. Smith went to Lowndesboro last week in answer to a telegram received announcing the serious illness of Mrs. H. E. Jones. Another telegram received on Monday announced that Mrs. Jones died Monday morning. She was well known to older residents of Prattville as Miss Hattie Burt. Her remains were interred at the Jones burying ground near Lowndesboro on Tuesday."⁴

Susan Rebecca BURT died on 6 May 1927 in Prattville, Autauga County, Alabama, at age 76.⁵ She was buried in Burt Family Cemetery.