She was the fourth daughter. ®1891 On 22 August 1808 Mrs. Mary Carmichael became a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Augusta, Georgia. ®3650 She was the second wife of John (James) Carmichael and had 13 children. ®1890 In the 1850 US Census of Richmond County she is living with Isabella, William T., Mary R. and Henrietta M. Carmichael and Anna Edgar. ®3648 In the 1852 Census of Augusta, Georgia she is a widow, Mrs. Mary E. Carmichael, head of household, living with 2 adult white males, 4 other adult white females and 3 male and 6 female slaves as a suburban inhabitant of Augusta. ®3651She was a Charter Member of the First Presbyterian Church of Augusta in 1808, and on 5 May 1844 was confirmed a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. ®3652

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

Sister Mary Eliza was the next daughter of the family. She was a fair beautiful woman in face and form. Her arms, neck and feet were particularly well-formed and she had a lively disposition which made her a great favorite with the gentlemen of her day. Among these was a very handsome widower with one daughter (Sarah). He was a merchant of great integrity and industry by name Mr. John Carmichael. He was an Irishman but had resided here from his youth. She married him and he took her to a comfortable home where they raised a large family. When he died, he had amassed fortune enough to leave them all well off. Among his relics was found a bag of silver labelled "This was left in my store by accident and kept for its owner".

W. S. Carmichael says that his grandmother had this silver (for which no owner was every found) made into a fork with her initials MEC on it and that it is now in his possession (Nov. 21st 1907). Sister Mary was more like my mother than any of her sisters, keeping everything in perfect order and reigning a queen in her household.

The death of her oldest son Oswell Eve, who was a noble, cultivated young man of thirty-one years almost broke her heart, but his happy death drew all her family nearer to heaven. She died in the midst of her usefulness in 1855.