ren, eight of whom lived to mature years--two sons
and six daughters. She died at Yellow Springs, Ohio, March 23,
1879, passing her eightieth birthday, like her brothers named,
having survived all her brothers and sisters. She was next to the
youngest of them. She inherited, cultivated, and practised the
essential virtues necessary in a successful, useful, pure, happy,
and contented life. She had a most cheerful disposition, and was
a confident and buoyant spirit, in sorrow and adversity. She was
devoted to all her children, and all owe her much for their
fundamental preparation, education, etc., together with the habits
of industry and perseverance, essential to whatever of success they
have attained in life. And, above all, she early became a member
of church (Baptist and Christian), and maintained her church
relations for above sixty years, to her death, never doubting in
her Christian belief, yet never bigoted or intolerant of the
religious views of others.

She was a devoted companion to her husband, and with him ever took
a deep interest in their family and neighbors, never neglecting a
duty to them. She, born in the Ohio territory, lived within its
borders above eighty years, witnessed its transformation from
savagery to the highest civilization, and its growth in wealth,
power, and population from little to the third of the great States
of the Union. She witnessed the coming, through science and
inventions, of railroads, telegraphs, steam, and electric power,
telephones, etc. She saw the soldiers of the War of 1812, the
Mexican war, and the War of the Rebellion, and something of the
Indian wars in Ohio. In her childhood she lived in proximity to
savages. With her husband she had ministered to escaped slaves,
and saw slavery (always detested by both) abolished. She witnessed
with becoming pride a degree of success in the efforts of her
children and grandchildren, and she held on her knees her great-
grandchildren. She is buried beside her husband in Ferncliff
Cemetery, Springfield, Ohio.

The children who grew to maturity were: Margaret, born September
22, 1816, who married Joseph Gaines, and died March 10, 1896,
leaving two sons and a daughter; Sarah (still living) born September
29, 1819, who married Lewis James, and, after his decease, Richard
T. Youngman, having one son, J. Warren James (Captain 45th Ohio,
War of the Rebellion), and _five_ children by her last husband;
Benjamin Franklin (sti