She was the daughter of James C. Smith and the second wife of James Knox Polk Norvell.∼Described by her great grand nephew, James Ponton, as cheerful and filled with laughter. She would often tell him a story about birds and was able to produce all of the bird calls. When he asked her how she was able to do this she replied that she had grown up next to a river and spent her childhood listening to the birds that lived there.
She was the daughter of James C. Smith and the second wife of James Knox Polk Norvell.∼Described by her great grand nephew, James Ponton, as cheerful and filled with laughter. She would often tell him a story about birds and was able to produce all of the bird calls. When he asked her how she was able to do this she replied that she had grown up next to a river and spent her childhood listening to the birds that lived there.
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