n, and were
much esteemed and honored in the community in which they lived.
They occupied the old homestead, doing their own work, their
interests well cared for in the person of Mr. Kellogg, an
intelligent tenant of theirs, as well as friend and neighbor.

_The Hartford Post_, in a tender mention of the life and death of
Abby, with a brief sketch of the family, thus bears honorable
testimony to her worthiness:

In the death of Miss Smith the cause of woman suffrage has
met with a severe loss, as her firm resistance to what she
believed to be the unjust treatment of women greatly
encouraged her companions in the contest; her sister has
lost her chief support, and the community in which she lived
a faithful friend and a worthy exponent of the virtues of
truthfulness, firmness, and adherence to the right as she
understood it.

_The Hartford Times_ said:

A notable woman who died last week was Miss Abigail H.
Smith, of Glastonbury, Conn., one of the two sisters who
resisted the collection of their taxes on the ground that
they had no voice in the levy. It will be remembered that
their cows were seized and some of their personal property
sold two years ago. Of course there were friends who were
willing and anxious to pay the taxes, but the plucky old
ladies were fighting for a principle, and they would allow
no one to stand in the way. The notoriety, which they
neither sought nor avoided, undoubtedly did a great deal to
call public attention to the anomalous condition of woman
under the law. It would be very hard for any man to argue
successfully that he possessed any stronger natural claim to
the suffrage than was possessed by these shrewd, honest,
energetic old ladies.

Many encouraging letters were written the sisters during their many
trials, of which the following is a fair specimen:

Near BOSTON, January 14, 1874.

MY DEAR MADAM: The account of your hardships is interesting, and
your action will be highly beneficial in bringing the subject to
public notice, and in leading to the correction of a great
injustice. The taxation of the property of women, without
allowing them any representa