Aaron Smith

He died due to Capt. Aaron Smith and Elizabeth Ann Carraway Smith, plus five of their nine child were massacred on July 1st, 1776 in SC.¹

General Notes
- Capt. Aaron Smith, his wife Elizabeth Carraway, five children, and five slaves were massacred by the Cherokee indians on July 1, 1776 and that they originally migrated from Craven Co., NC on the North shore of the Neuse in present day Pamlico County near Oriental, NC to Johnston County, NC in the mid 1700's, at the mouth of Carraway Creek and the Neuse near Goldsboro, NC before moving to SC. Aaron also held land in Anson County NC on the Pee Dee between about 1758 to 1763. Aaron and Elizabeth Carraway moved from there to the old 96 th district of South Carolina where she was killed with her husband and 5 children at their home in the Long Cane Creek area during an attack by indians on July 1, 1776.