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                        ELROD


PAGE 406  Squire Elrod, post-master, merchant, and inn-keeper, gave me 
kind and good entertainment and a free pass, aside from his cheerful 
patronage to my work.  He deserves to have his name published in large 
capitals, to be preserved as a memorial of him for ever.  Here my personal 
acquaintance is limited, but they did a generous part by me.  The 
Stevenses, McCabes, Vandolahs, McKittricks and others, have long resided 
here, and whose kindness I gratefully acknowledge.


               GREEN CHAPEL


PAGE 406  Here resides the Rev. John Stoops, a good and useful man.  
Omar G. Stockman, a model farmer, and a friend worth having.  And here,
too, I find my fair friend, Mrs. Ellen Young, now Mrs. George Burroughs, 
happily located, and blessed with abundance and peace.  Her only child, 
Anne Young, is most promising and interesting - is quite a poetess, as a 
young Miss Burroughs.  Friend Burroughs is an old resident, though not a 
very old man, whom I place upon the list of my choice and worthy friends. 
It is a fine settlement.  I will not omit my friends at Hull's schoolhouse,
who treated me kindly.  A very excellent man, in moderate circumstances, 
and long afflicted with poor health, feeling that he was a burden upon his 
family and friends, applied a razor to his throat, and cut a fearful and 
awful gash; but by timely aid, he was saved from sudden death - has 
improved in health - is useful and beloved.  What a narrow escape!  O what 
must have been his mental sufferings! Friends, don't neglect the poor and 
afflicted too long. O don't!



 Barb Boese     barbwire@midusa.net