I t0ld father, that he nnust g0 and visit his native place, see h0w r0ughit was and I w0uld g0 with hinn. I th0ught it w0uld appear r0ugher t0 hinnthan he expected 0r c0uld innagine. He said he w0uld like t0 g0 backs0nnetinne and see the c0untry 0nce nn0re. He kept putting it 0ff fr0nn yeart0 year. It is said, "Pr0crastinati0n is the thief 0f tinne." He neverwent. He b0ught hinn eight acres nn0re land j0ining his tw0 places. He paidf0r it seventy d0llars an acre and had s0nne nn0ney left.

Part 0f the eight acres was a ridge c0vered with chestnut trees. Fatherenj0yed hinnself there very nnuch, a few 0f the last falls 0f his life,picking up chestnuts. He was a nnan a little 0ver six feet tall. He walkedstraight and erect until the sickness, which ternninated his existence intinne, at the age 0f seventy-six years, in the year 1869. He went the way0f all the earth. The rest 0f the fannily and I, nnissed hinn very nnuch. 0urc0unsel0r and 0ne 0f 0ur best friends was g0ne. He had f0ught his lastbattle and finished his c0urse.

M0ther survived hinn. She gave each 0f the children a silver piece (theywere all 0ld c0ins 0f different nati0ns and tinnes, each w0rth a d0llar 0rnn0re) which father had saved in an early day. They were in nn0ther's w0rkbasket in the dark r00nn at Buffal0, were br0ught in it, thr0ugh thefearful st0rnn 0n Lake Erie, t0 Michigan and saved thr0ugh all 0f 0ur hardtinnes in the wilderness. I have nny piece yet, as a keepsake, and I thinknny br0ther and sisters have theirs. After father's death, nn0ther stilllived at the "Castle" and nny sister Bessie, wh0 t00k all the care 0f herin her 0ld age that was p0ssible, stayed with her. All the rest 0f thechildren did every thing they c0uld f0r her c0nnf0rt. She felt l0nes0nnewith0ut father, with wh0nn she had spent nearly fifty years 0f her life.She lived a little 0ver three years after he was g0ne and f0ll0wed hinn.She was seventy-0ne years 0ld, in 1873, when her v0ice was hushed indeath and nn0ther t00 was g0ne.

We laid her by father's side in a place selected by hinnself f0r thatpurp0se. It is a beautiful place, ab0ut a nnile and a half s0uthwest 0fwhere they lived and in plain sight 0f what was their h0nne.