User:JessicabowmanOU/Margaret Charles Smith

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'''Margaret Charles Smith was Born in Eutaw, Alabama on September 12th, 1906. About 3 weeks after Smith’s birth however, her mother Beulah Sanders, passed away. After the death of her mother, Smith was raised by her grandparents on their farm in Eutaw Alabama.''' '''Margaret Charles Smith also known as "Miss Margaret" was first introduced to midwifery around the young age of five years old. Smith had her first midwifery experience while assisting at the bedside during the birth of an infant of her future husband-to-be's cousin's wife. Smith caught the infant as the birth was taking place before the midwife was able to make her arrival to the home.'''

'''Margaret Charles Smith was able to successfully deliver twins, babies who were in the breech position, and even premature babies. Sometimes the mothers that Smith would provide midwifery services for could not afford to pay Smith anything for her services. Other times the mothers that Smith would midwife for would pay in produce. At times, Smith was getting paid up to five to ten dollars per birth attended.'''

'''During Smith's school-aged years, she met a man by the name of Randolph Smith in a one roomed segregated school house and ended up falling in love. Against the wishes of her grandmother, Margaret Smith, the couple married in 1943.'''

The couple resided on Smith’s grandmother's farm where Randolph Smith, Smith's husband, ended up taking on hog farming, which led to being the main source of income for the Smith family.

Smith gave birth to three sons, Spencer Charles, Huston Charles, and Herman Smith, her first son was born when Smith was 17, while she was still in her teens. She served as her own midwife for her second birth, her others accompanied by midwives. She also served as the midwife for the first born daughter of her son Spencer and his wife Betty. The tradition continued with her being present at the birth of her granddaughter's first child." [[Margaret Charles Smith ]]

Gave birth to spencer when she was 17 years old,

Margaret Charles Smith and her family continued to farm at their estate in Eutaw Alabama throughout Smith’s life until just before her death at the age of 98, in November of 2004.