"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
- Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"
Annie Arnold Smith
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Photo of Annie Smith. Dandridge Smith, son of Jane and Porter, was born on August 24, 1840. He followed in his father’s footsteps and became a blacksmith. He stayed in the Gum Springs area after the Civil War and married a woman named Annie M. Arnold who was born on November 6, 1854. Annie would become Gum Springs first black school teacher. Both Dandridge and his wife Annie are buried at the Peake family cemetery, part of the Peake Planation which bordered the Mount Vernon Planation. That cemetery is located today behind the Gum Springs Museum and their headstones are visable. (Photo courtesy of the Gum Springs Museum, Ron Chase Curator).
