mployment, and one which he followed during
his whole life.

In 1805 he took a pedestrian tour, by way of New York, Albany, and
Niagara Falls to the State of Ohio, then the far West, coming home by
way of Pittsburg, and walking altogether one thousand three hundred and
fifty miles. In this trip he increased the injury to his feet, so as to
render himself virtually a cripple. Upon the death of his father, he
settled upon the farm, on which he died.

About the year 1808 on going to visit some friends, who had removed to
Adams county, Pennsylvania, he became acquainted with Hannah Wierman,
whom he married on the fourth day of the fifth month, 1815. At this time
Daniel Gibbous was about forty years old, and his wife about
twenty-eight, she having been born on the ninth of the seventh month,
1787. A life of one after their union, would be incomplete without some
notice of the other.

During a married life of thirty-seven years, Hannah Gibbons was the
assistant of her husband in every good and noble work. Possessed of a
warm heart, a powerful, though uncultivated intellect, an excellent
judgment, and great sweetness of disposition, she was fitted both by
nature and training to endure without murmuring the inconvenience and
trouble incident to the reception and care of fugitives and to rejoice
that to her was given the opportunity of assisting them in their efforts
to be free.

The true measure of greatness in a human soul, is its willingness to
suffer for its own good, or the good of its fellows, its
self-sacrificing spirit. Granting the truth of this, one of the greatest
souls was that of Hannah W. Gibbons. The following incident is a proof
of this:

In 1836, when she was no longer a young woman, there came to her home,
one of the poorest, most ignorant, and filthiest of mankind--a slave
from the great valley of Virginia. He was foot-sore and weary, and could
not tell how he came, or who directed him. He seemed indeed, a missive
directed and sent by the hand of the Almighty. Before he could be
cleansed or recruited, he was taken sick, and before he could be removed
(even if he could have been trusted at the county poor house), his case
was pronounced to be small-pox. For six long weeks did this good angel
in human form, attend upon this unfortunate object. Reasons were found
why no one else could do it, and with her own hands, she ministered to
his wants, until he was restored to health. Such was her life. This is
mer