nder plant;
too tender for this world. Her age was twenty years, ten months and
eight days.

SUNDAY, February 22. Meeting at our meetinghouse. Matthew 22 is read.
Brother Benjamin Funk speaks. He and Brother Benjamin Driver were with
me last night. Snow fell last night and to-day about ten inches deep.

SUNDAY, March 8. Jacob Silvins's little son Jacob is buried to-day.
This is the third one of his children I have helped to bury within the
last two weeks.

TUESDAY, March 17. I am at Nimrod Judy's. I this day had a chance to
send a letter through the lines to Brother George Hoover, of Indiana.

SUNDAY, March 29. Preach funeral for three of Brother See's children.
Youngest, two years, five months and five days old; next, six years,
ten months and five days; oldest, nine years, five months and sixteen
days. They died of diphtheria.

THURSDAY, April 2. Attend the Beaver Creek council meeting. Joseph
Miller is elected to the ministry of the Word, and Daniel Miller to
the deaconship.

FRIDAY, April 3. Council meeting at the old meetinghouse. Joseph
Bowman and Joseph Harshberger are elected to the deaconship.

SATURDAY, April 4. Council meeting at the Mill Creek meetinghouse.
Isaac Long is ordained, and Noah Flory is elected to the deaconship.
Stay all night at old Daniel Wine's.

SATURDAY, April 18. About one o'clock this morning Abraham Funk came
for me. A man by the name of George Sellers met with the very sad
accident of having his leg broken. He had been in the Southern army,
and with a company of others who, like himself, were trying to make
their way to places within the Northern lines, and thus be out of the
reach of further molestation, he met with this misfortune. It happened
in this way: he was one of a company that was just leaving Abraham
Funk's by previous arrangement, about eleven o'clock in the night.
Near Abraham Funk's house, about two miles west of Broadway, the road
runs along the North Fork of the Shenandoah river, where the bank is
probably one hundred feet high, and very steep. This part of the road
lay directly in the line of the company's route, and, unfortunately,
just as they got into the road, right at this very steep place on the
bank of the river, an alarm of "Rebel scouts" seized the whole
company, and all together they went down to the river's edge, none
seriously hurt except Mr. Sellers, who had his leg broken. I made a
frame this morning to hold the fractured parts in place, and hope