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Kev. Samutl Lawrence. Rev. I)aiii<.l L. Huslits. I). 1). Hon. (leo. M. J'.Ulrcdgc. 
 
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THE 
 
 DIVINE COVENANT FULFILLED 
 
 IN THE 
 
 ANCESTRAL FAMILY HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ^.AWREp-HUGHES JINDElDPGE 
 
 GENERATIONS 
 
 OF 
 
 CAPE IVEAY COUN'TY, NEW JERSEY, 
 
 Rev. Daniel Lawrence Hughes, D, D,, 
 
 PETERSBUROH, PA. 
 
 I will be a God, unto thee and to thy seed after thee,"— Gen. 17:7. 
 The pronnise is unto you, and to your children " — Acts 2:39. 
 
 d. L. LANDIS, Book AND Job Printer, 
 
 CAPE MAY CITY, N. J. 
 
INDEX 
 
 TO THE FOLLOWING FAMILY SKETCHES. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Frontispiece Group (Portraits) - - - - 2 
 
 Preface, - - - - - - -7 
 
 Rev. Daniel Lawrence and Family, . _ _ g-io 
 
 Rev^ Samuel Lawrence and Family, - - 11-18 
 
 Jacob Hughes and Family, _ . _ . > 18-20 
 
 The Eldredge Group (Portraits) - - - - 21 
 
 Jeremiah Eldredge and Family, - - _ _ 21-24 
 
 Aaron Eldredge and Family, - - - - 25 
 
 Joseph Eldredge and Family, - - - - 26 
 
 Capt. William Eldredge and Family, - - - 27-28 
 
 Stilvvell Eldredge and Family, - _ - _ ^9-33 
 
 Hon. George M. Eldredge and Family, - - 34-35 
 
 Ephraim Eldredge and Family, - - . - - 35-37 
 
 James Rainy Hughes Group ( Portraits) - - - 38 
 
 James R. Hughes and Family, - - - - 38-85 
 
 Rev. James M. Edmonds, - . _ . 86-90 
 
 Cold Spring Presbyterian Church (Cut) - - 91-94 
 
 Rev. Daniel L Hughes, D.D., - - - 95-108 
 
 Relatives of Mrs. Elmira W. Hughes, - - 109-117 
 Elmira W. Hughes, ----- 1 17-140 
 
 Residence of Rev. D. L. and K. W. Hughes, - - 141 
 Children of Rev. Daniel L, and Elmira W. Hughes, - 142-160 
 Conclusion, _--.__ jgi 
 
DBDICATION. 
 
 First, to my own beloved children and grandchildren ; and 
 second, to all " my kinsmen according to the flesh," — hoping and 
 praying that it may stimulate and encourage them and all their 
 generations followed to lead a godly life in Christ Jesus, worthy of 
 their pious ancestors, and to the glory of the triune Jehovah — is 
 this volume affectionately dedicated, 
 
 By the 
 
 AUTHOR. 
 
This book is not a novel — fiction — romance, designed merely to 
 interest and please. It is a reality, lull of figures and facts to 
 instruct, profit and bless, as well as to interest its readers. 
 
 It was originally designed as a biography of the author and his 
 family for their more special benefit; but was afterwards enlarged 
 to embrace more of their ancestors and relatives, hoping that it 
 would be, thereby, more satisfactory and useful. It now embraces 
 a THESAURUS of Family Genealogies, both near and remote, and 
 will be reliable as a book of reference to all the relatives included 
 therein. If some families are more fully recorded than others, it is 
 because larger information was sent to the author in answer to his 
 inquiries. The facts in tjiis book are as accurate as it is possible 
 for them to be. They are drawn not only from memory and from 
 oral or traditional history, but especially from fami y Bibles, tomb- 
 stone inscriptions and published records. The author has also 
 introduced, in this age of science, the photographic art to help 
 render the historical sketches the more interesting and satisfactory. 
 
 The FRONTISPIECE GROUP of photographs on page two, is designed 
 to represent four families, whose histories are sketched. . Rev. 
 Samuel Lawrence, of Lewistown, Pa., represents the Lawrences ; 
 Rev. Daniel L. Hughes, D. D., of Petersburg, Pa., represents the 
 Hughes family ; Hon. George M. Eldredge, of Abbeville, Louisiana, 
 represents the Eklredges, and Mr. Reuben Foster of Baltimor.\ 
 r.Iaryland, represents the Fosters. The second group of 
 photographs, on page 21, under the pictures of Mrs. Sarah D. 
 Lawrence, ihe wife ot Rev. Samuel Lawrence, and their eldest 
 son, Samuel F. Lawrence — is called the Eldredge group, illustrat- 
 ing the most of the families of the author's uncles by their children. 
 The third group of photographs, on page 38, is called the James 
 Rainy Hughes GROUP, including the portraits of the author's parents 
 and the most of their children. An accurate engraving of the old 
 Brick Church, at Cold Spring, and its beautiful cemetery where 
 the most of our ancestors and relat.ves lie buried until the resur- 
 rection morning, will be found on page 91, and another one, also, 
 of the late residence of the author and his fami y, in Traer, Tama 
 Count)', Iowa, will be found on page 141 — all which, it is believed, 
 will increase both the value and the interest of the book. 
 
The author hopes that the readers of this volume will exercise 
 clemency towards him. First, because its history is so much of a 
 personal matter that he may have unwittingly erred in presenting 
 its details with an overweening partiality. Second, because while 
 it has coet him a great deal of time, research and care, it has been 
 prepared amidst his constant pulpit and pastoral work, and in 
 feeble health, besides many outside labors, necessarily rendering the 
 volume imperfect. Rut it has been his heart's desire and prayer to 
 God that the book may bring honor to his Master, and be encour- 
 aging and helpful to the |)resent and future generations of all those 
 who read it. God's promises are, '' The mercy of the Lord is from 
 everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his right- 
 eousness unto children's children, to such as keep his covenant, 
 and to those that remember his commandments to do them." Psalms 
 103:17,18. The author is not anxious for his relatives to possess 
 earthly wealth, honor or pleasure ; but his soul longs for them to 
 be wholly the Lord's — in person, family and estate — to be conse- 
 crated to Him, in their entire being and ini^uence. So that for them 
 to live it shall be Christ, that the advancement of His kingdom and 
 glory shall be the ruling motive of their hearts and lives, and then 
 for them to die it shall be gain. To aid in this, or to help intensify 
 it, is the object and inspiration of these sketches. And he has been 
 encouraged in preparing them also by looking at the past as well 
 as at the future, and weaving into it a brief history of the godly 
 lives of our ancestors — as an unbroken family in their Christian 
 character and influence. 
 
 " Let children hear the mighty deeds, 
 
 Wliich God performed of old, 
 Which in our younger years we saw. 
 
 And which our fathers told. 
 He bids us make his glories known, 
 
 His works of power and grace, 
 And we'll convey his wonders down, 
 
 Through every rising race. 
 
 Our lips shall tell them to our sons, 
 
 And they again to theirs. 
 That generations yet unborn, 
 
 May teach them to their heirs. 
 Thus shall they learn in God alone 
 
 Their hope securely stands, 
 That they may ne'er forget his works. 
 
 But practice his commands." 
 
 DANIEL LAWRENCE HUGHES. 
 
ANCESTRAL HISTORY. 
 
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 N entering upon this genealogical and historical outline of my 
 cv^ Ancestors and Relatives, I shall present three distinct families. 
 ^ The Lawrence familv. 
 
 The Hughes family. 
 
 The Eldredge family. 
 
 They will be considered in the following particulars. 
 
 I. On the Lawrence side of my great grand parents. 2. On 
 the Hughes side of my great grand parents. 3. Of my grand 
 parents on my father's side, and his brothers and sisters. 4. Of 
 my great grand parents and my grand parents on my mother's 
 SIDE, and her brothers. 5. My parents' children. 6. My own 
 CHILDREN and their families. 
 
 REV. DANIEL LAWRENCE. 
 
 My great grand parents, the Rev. Daniel Lawrence and his 
 Avife Sarah Lawrence, had two children — My grandmother, Ann 
 Lawrence, father's mother, who married Jacob Hughes, of Cape 
 May; and her brother, Daniel Lawrence, father of Rev. Samuel 
 Lawrence. I do not know the occupation of Daniel Lawrence, 
 nor whom he married, nor where he resided, but I suppose in 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 My great grandfather, the Rev. Daniel Lawrence, was born 
 on Long Island, in 17 18, and died at Cape May, New Jersey, April 
 14, 1766, in the 48th year of his age. Heat first learned the trade 
 of a blacksmith, but afterwards received an education for the minis- 
 try at the celebrated " Log College," in Bucks County, Pa., estab- 
 lished in 1726, by the memorable Rev. William Tennet, Sr. His 
 
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 college was the first literary institution for the training of young 
 men for the ministry west of the Hudson River. It was the germ 
 of Princeton College, and was remarkably useful in educating many 
 eminently godly, talented and devoted ministers, such as Samuel 
 Finley, William Robinson and others, in the early part of our 
 history. After completing his college course, Mr Lawrence was 
 taken on trial by the New Brunswick Presbytery, on September 
 II, 1744, and was licensed at Philadelphia, May 28, 1^5. In the 
 Fall, Newton and Bensalem congregations, Bucks County, Pa., 
 asked for his ministerial labors. So did Upper and Lower Beth- 
 lehem, Hopewell and Maidenhead. At the request of the church 
 members of the Forks of the Delaware, he was sent. May 24, 1746, 
 to supply them for a year with a view to settlement, and in Oc- 
 tober a call was presented to him. He was ordained April 2, 1^7, 
 and installed on the third Sabbath of June following. The Forks, 
 North and West, had been favored with a portion of Brainerd's 
 labors, and were by no means an unpromising field, having many 
 excellent and pious families. But it was a laborious field, a wide 
 tract of fifteen miles lying between the two meeting houses. Mr. 
 Lawrence was not robust, and for his health he was directed to 
 spend the Winter and Spring at Cape May. In the year 1752, the 
 church here gave him a call to become its pastor, and his health 
 still continuing feeble, he accepted their call, was dismissed from 
 his former charge, removed to Cape May, began his labors there in 
 1752, and after a long delay was installed June 20, 1754, by a com- 
 mittee consisting of Revs. Hunter, Chestnut and Beatty. It is 
 said, that on account of his ill health, Mr. Lawrence had, in preach- 
 ing, to speak low, slow and short. He was a pious and faithful 
 minister of the gospel, and after fourteen years of useful labors he 
 died and was buried among his people in the Cold Spring grave- 
 yard. On his tombstone is the following appropriate and affecting 
 verse : — 
 
 In yonder sacred house I spent my breath, 
 Now silent, mouldering here I lie in death . 
 Those silent lips shnll wake and yet declare, 
 A dread amen to truths, they punished thete. 
 
 My GREAT GRANDMOTHER, Sarah Lawrence, was born in 1723, 
 died at Cape May, N. J., and was buried there in the Cold Spring 
 
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 grave yard by the side of her husband. The inscription on her 
 tombstone is very brief. It is simply, "Mrs. Sarah Lawrence, died 
 January 20, 1768, age 45 years." She, however, lived for the Lord, 
 died in the Lord and is now forever with the Lord. She rests from 
 her labors and her works do follow her. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Lawrence, grandson of the Rev. Daniel and Sarah 
 Lawrence, ^nd my second cousin, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
 December 28, 1795, and died in Lewistown, Pa., August 30, 1875, 
 aged seventy-nine years, eight months, and two days. On his 
 tombstone is inscribed, " I have glorified thee on the earth ; I have 
 finished the work which thou gavest me to do." The following 
 from his pen, written at Cape Island, New Jersey, May 30, 1838, is 
 takpn from the album of Mrs. Elmira W. Hughes, by whose 
 parents he was often cordially entertained when preaching for the 
 pastor of the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church ; it is quoted here 
 to shjw his conscientious habit of trying always to say or do 
 something instructive and useful. 
 
 THE RAINBOW. 
 
 "You remember, Elmira, that last evening we saw upon the 
 bosom of a dark cloud which hung over the ocean a well defined 
 rainbow. You are familiar with the material causes that are a.*^- 
 signed for this splendid and beautiful sight, upon which we look 
 with pleasure at all times, especially at the close of day. and you 
 have no doubt often heard the simple couplet : 
 
 " The rainbow at night, 
 Is the seaman's delight." 
 
 It is so because, in general, he is assured by it that the morrow 
 shall be propitious to his voyage. 
 
 But a believer in divine relation should look upon the rainbow 
 with peculiar emotions, as the pledge from age to age of the benev- 
 olence and faithfulness of our covenant God. " I do set (says He), 
 my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant 
 between me and the earth, and the waters shall no more become a 
 flood to destroy all flesh." 
 
 This assurance adds brightness and beauty to the " bow in the 
 
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 clouds." The prophet Ezekiel 1:26,28, makes a statement that 
 gives " the particolored bow " still greater interest in the eye of a 
 Christian. In the sublime vision he had of the majesty and power 
 of God, he saw upon the throne the likeness of a man, (we believe 
 the man Christ Jesus), and says, as " the appearance of the bow 
 that is in the cloud in the day ot rain, so was the appearance of the 
 brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness 
 of the glory of the Lord " 
 
 You are aware that the various colors so sweetly blended in the 
 rainbow, and thus rendered so agreeable to the eye, are but another 
 form of the solar light, which if we were to look upon it as it pro- 
 ceeds from the unclouded orb of day would dazzle us to blindness. 
 What a beautiful thought then does the language of the prophet 
 furnish us ! We, guilty creatures, durst not look upon an absolute 
 God, for he is a consuming fire, but how mild, how sweet is the 
 light of the knowledge of his glory in the face of Jesus Christ! 
 
 Whenever then, friend Elmira, you look on the rainbow, think 
 of the faithfulness of the God of nature, and intrust yourself to his 
 protection. Think of the grace of the God and Father of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ and rely on his mercy. 
 
 Thus whatever storm-cloud shall darken your earthly prospects 
 you may be assured all will be well, and when at the close of life's 
 brief day the gloomy shade of death shall spread over you, the eye 
 of faith shall discern the rainbow of hope thrown across it, the 
 pledge that a morn shall succeed to you. 
 
 Where all is sinless, bright and blest, 
 And sweetly flows the stream of love and joy. 
 Still springing from the throne of God, 
 Who lives and reigns forever." 
 
 I also record here the following true and tender verses composed 
 by Mr. Lawrence, and written in his own hand writing. They 
 were sent to me August 29, 1890, by his daughter Mrs. Sarah 
 H. Thompson, of Milroy, Pa. 
 
 She rests — a fond mother is gone, a 
 
 Her smile, it will greet us no more, 
 Her spirit has found its reward 
 
 Where pleasures shall reign evermore, 
 
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 No tear can o'ershadow the eye, 
 
 No sigh shall e'er trouble the breaSt, 
 But freed from the trials of earth 
 
 In peace her rapt spirit shall rest. 
 
 Thou hast left us, no more to return, 
 
 Grief casts its deep shadow around. 
 No more shall my mother's fond voice 
 
 In love's sweetest accents resound. 
 
 The heart's deepest fountains are stirred, 
 
 Tears, tears in their bitterness flow, 
 Ah ! who but the soul thus bereaved 
 
 Can the depths of such loneliness know? 
 
 'Great Father ! to Thee we resign, 
 
 Thou gavest, and takest away, 
 ■We seek for a shelter in Thee, 
 
 Oh ! shine with Thy soul cheering ray. 
 
 Our loss is her infinite gain, 
 
 G! grant us thy heavenly love. 
 That we, when life's journey is o'er. 
 
 May meet our dear parent above. 
 
 A mother her mission has filled, 
 
 Her life sheds a heavenly ray, 
 Her labors of love are all o'er, 
 
 She has passed from her duties away. 
 
 How bright to look back and behold 
 
 The path which tke Ohnstian has tiod; 
 How sweet is the sleep of the just 
 
 Who rest in the smile of their God. 
 
 The Presbyterian, of June 2. 1873, published the following 
 facts in reference to Mr. Lawrence : " It has been the custom of 
 the General Assembly, after the necrological list has been read, to 
 engage in prayer with one of the oldest members. On Monday 
 morning this prayer was offered by Rev. Samuel Lawrence, a ven- 
 erable member from the Presbytery of Huntingdon. The solemn 
 hush throughout the auditorium as the aged man rose in his place, 
 cannot be described. Before the echoes of his trembling voice 
 had ceased, there was a feeling deeply impressed upon the audi- 
 ence that the speaker would never again be able to attend the 
 sessions of the General Assembly, and that his name, before many 
 years, will be read to this great assembly in the list of those gath- 
 ered to Abraham's bosom." The following obituary of him was 
 f ublislied in The Presbyterian of 1875. 
 
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 REV. SAMUEL LAWRENCE. 
 
 " The Rev. Samuel Lawrence, a member of the Presbytery of 
 Huntingdon, lately deceased, was born in the city of Philadelphia, 
 December 28, 1795. His parentage was respectable, though per- 
 haps not wealthy. He early became a member of the Second 
 Presbyterian Church in the city of his birth, then under the co- 
 pa^toral care of the Rev. Drs. Green and Janeway. If he became 
 a member of the church while Dr. Green was a co-pastor, then it 
 must have been before he was seventeen years of age. However, 
 he early devoted himself to the work of the ministry, and having 
 completed his collegiate education, as is believed, at the College 
 of New Jersey, Nassau Hall, Princeton, he entered upon a course 
 of theological studies in the Theological Seminary, in the same 
 place, Drs. Alexander and Miller being then the sole Professors. 
 
 He was licensed to preach the gospel by the Presbytery of 
 Philadelphia in the spring of 1823. For a year after his licensure 
 he served as stated supply to the united congregations of Bridgeton 
 and Greenwich, N. J. Upon the separation of these churches the 
 next year, he was called to the pastoral charge of the latter, and 
 was ordained and installed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia in 
 November, 1824. Here he continued to labor with success and 
 acceptability until 1847 — twenty four years — at which time his 
 pastoral relation was dissolved on account of failing health. 
 
 After performing missionary service within the bounds of the 
 Presbytery of West Jersey, as his health permitted; in j 849, he 
 visited some of the vacant churches in the Presbytery of Hunting- 
 don, particularly the congregation of Perryville, (now called Milroy), 
 just made vacant by the resignation of the Rev. James Nourse. In 
 the spring of 1850 a call from that congregation was presented to 
 Presbytery for his pastoral services, which was accepted, and he 
 was duly installed its pastor. 
 
 This congregation he continued to serve till the spring of 1857, 
 when he resigned the charge, with a view to facilitate the union of 
 Milroy and East Kishacoquillas in one pastoral charge, whigh was 
 then under consideration, as supposed. This was the last pastoral 
 
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 relation he sustained, but he continued to act as Presbyterial mis- 
 sionary till near the time of his death, when the infirmities of old 
 age forbade his traveling much from home. 
 
 Father Lawrence was naturally ot a ver}' amiable and pleasant 
 disposition. But his chief excellency was his eminent piety. This 
 was manifest at all times and in all places. As a preacher, he was 
 faithful and instructive. Being a man of great simplicity of manner, 
 in and out of the pulpit, he made no pretensions beyond what might 
 readily be discovered in him by any sensible hearer. The unpre- 
 tending simp icity of his manner in the pulpit, no doubt, caused 
 many to under-estiraate his pulpit performances ; but all gracious 
 souls were edified and comforted. He was highly esteemed in the 
 families of God's people, and by all serious persons. Especially 
 was he a welcome visitor in the house of mourning. Gentle, 
 sympathetic, and wise, he was especially fitted to counsel and direct 
 the sick and the dying. 
 
 In the proper work of a minister and a pastor he was unusually 
 laborious and self-denying till the very end of his life. In extreme 
 old age he would travel through heat and cold to supply a few 
 destitute and scattered people, preachmg oftentimes three sermons 
 on the Sabbath, after ^raveling in the roughest conveyances, over 
 the roughest roads, and often on week days. If ability as a preacher 
 consists in a thorough understanding of the doctrines of the gospel, 
 as taught in the Bible and exhibted in the Westminster Confession 
 of faith and m the Catechisms, Larger and Shorter, and a hearty 
 ■consent to and love for them, then was Father L'ovrence a very 
 capable expounder of the Word. 
 
 As a presbyter he was always very efficient, and in his relations 
 to the brethren kind and courteous. He had no taste for contro- 
 versy, but was always found true to the doctrines and order of the 
 Church. He was mtimately acquainted with the rules of discipline 
 and order of ecclesiastical business, and was, therefore, well quali- 
 fied to counsel and advise in the courts of the Church. 
 
 Mr. Lawrence was a minister of more learning than, perhaps, has 
 been generally attributed to him, more especially on those subjects 
 that pertained to his life-long work. In Ecclesiabtical History, 
 Church Government and Theology, his knowledge was accurate, 
 £;.:Tiiliar and extensive. 
 
After resigning his last pastoral charge, he fixed his family 
 residence at Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pa. His last public ap- 
 pearance was on the street of that town on the Sabbath afternoon; 
 but one before his death, when he addressed a crowd who seldom 
 if ever attended the services of the sanctuary. The next day, or 
 very shortly afterwards, he. was seized with the disease which 
 terminated his long and useful life. His disease was bilious diarrhoea. 
 His sickness lasted only ten days, without any acute suffering. His 
 end was, like his life, very peaceful. He died on the 30th day of 
 August, 1875, in the eightieth year of his age ; and his funeral took 
 place on Thursday, the 2d of September, attended by a goodly 
 number of his ministerial brethren of several denominations, and a 
 large concourse of people. Father Lawrence was married early in 
 his ministerial life to Miss Fithian, of New Jersey. This excellent 
 woman died several years before her husband, leaving him with a 
 family of ten children, most of whom are daughters. 
 
 Nothing remains further to say but — " Blessed are the dead who 
 die in the Lord from henceforth ; yea saith the Spirit, that they 
 may rest from their labors ; and their works do follow them." "Well 
 done, good and faithful servant;" the labor and the suffering are 
 over ; now the crown 1" 
 
 Mr. Lawrence had two sisters, Deborah and Catharine. They 
 both died in Philadelphia. He was married in Philadelphia, January 
 3, 1825, to Sarah Dare Fithian, b}^ the Rev. Dr. Janeway. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah D are Lawrence, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah 
 Reeves Fithian, was born in Roadstown, Cumberland county, 
 New Jersey, May 10, 1807, and died in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, 
 September 5, 1868, aged 61 years, 3 months and 25 days. The 
 inscription on her tombstone is, "I know whom I have believed, 
 and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have com- 
 mitted unto Him against that day." I here transcribe the following 
 appropriate published record of her: 
 
 Died — " On the 5th inst.,at Lewistown, Mifflin county. Pa., Mrs. 
 Sallie D. Lawrence, wife of the Rev. Samuel Lawrence, in the 
 sixty-second year of her age, after a short but severe illness. She w'as 
 distinguished, during a married life of forty-four years, as the 
 efficient helpmeet of her husband in his pastoral duties ; as a faithful 
 and affectionate mother ; as a friend to the poor ; as a tender and 
 
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 skilful nurse among the sick and suffering; and as ready for every 
 good work. During the late civil war she took a prominent part 
 in those labors of love, by which the females of our land accomplished 
 so much for the relief and comfort of our suffering soldiery. Such 
 was the nature and effect of her last disease, as to render her unable 
 to converse much herself, or even to listen to what was said by 
 others. Once, during a more than usual season of relief from pain, 
 on being asked if she knew her husband, who was then standing 
 by her, she replied, '' Yes ; I know my husband, and I know my 
 Heavenly Father, and my gracious Saviour, in whom I trust, and 
 whose blood cleanseth from all sin." Other expressions of a similar 
 kind were made by her down to the closing scene, which was calm 
 and peaceful ; but she needed not these things to certify her Christian 
 character. Her religious life had always been marked more by 
 deeds than words, and many precious recollections of these are 
 cherished by surviving relatives and friends. She leaves behind 
 her a husband and a large family of children, who, while mourning her 
 departure, desire to feel grateful to God that she was spared so long 
 to them. " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from 
 henceforth ; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their 
 labors, and their works do follow them." 
 
 The children of the Rev. Samuel and Sarah D. Lawrence were 
 eleven — eight daughters and three sons. 
 
 1. Mary Elizabeth Lawrence, was born in Greenwich, N. J., July 
 20, 1826. She was married to Theodore W. Young, January 13, 
 1847. He is a coal dealer, and lives in Trenton, N. J. They are 
 both members of the church. They have had six children, but 
 only two are living. 
 
 2, Sarah Hart Lawrence, was born in Greenwich, N. J., Septem- 
 ber 5, 1 828. She was married April 6. 1854, to William J. Thompson, 
 of Milroy, Pa. They were both members of the church, Mr, 
 Thompson died in Sunbury, Pa., September 16, 1877, after which 
 his family moved back to their own home in Milroy. They had 
 two children, one son, Harvey, and one daughter, Kate L. Harvey 
 was eleven years in' the store at Logan, Pa. But for the last year 
 he has been at Everett, Bedford County, Pa., in charge of the 
 grocery department of a large store there. Kate L. resides with 
 her mother at Milroy, Pa. 
 
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 3- Samuel Fithian Lawrence was born February 30, 1831. He 
 was married November 23, 1865, to Emily Seeley Fithian, of 
 Greenwich, N. J. They have no children. 
 
 4. Jacob Janeway Lawrence was born September 5, 1833, and 
 died July 31, 1840, at Roadstown, N. J. 
 
 5. Martha Janeway Lawrence was born January 20, 1836. She 
 was married to William John McManigal, of Milroy, Pa., Decem- 
 ber 22, 1858. He lives in Orbiston, Ohio, and is manager of the 
 furnace there. They have had six children. All are living but one. 
 
 6. Harriet Love Lawrence was born January 22, 1838. She was 
 married to Benjamin F. Harding, of Clayton, N. J,, May 14, 1866. 
 They now live in Bridgeton, N. J., and have five children. Mr. 
 Harding is a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church there. 
 
 7. Rebecca Fithian Lawrence was born March 5, 1840, and was 
 married July, 1877, to William Brunyate, of Port Norris, N. J. He 
 is an oyster dealer. They now live in Bridgeton, N. J., and have 
 one child. They are both members of the church. 
 
 8. Margaret Freeman Lawrence was born October 4, 1842, and 
 was married to Thomas D. Parker, a merchant in Lewistown, Pa., 
 February 11, 1867. She died September i, 1882. 
 
 9. Catharine Dunlap Lawrence was born May 31, 1847, ^"^ 
 was married to Thomas W. Hamilton, November, 1875. They are 
 now living in Harrisburg, Pa., and have four children. She is a 
 member of the church. 
 
 10. Anna Howell Lawrence was born October 27, 1848, and 
 was married to Lewis D. Sheppard, July 27, 1870- He is a mer- 
 chant in Keokuk, Iowa. They have four children, and are both 
 members of the church. 
 
 11. Robert Fithian Lawrence, the youngest child, was born at 
 Milroy, Mifflin County, Pa., June 4, 1851. He was married to 
 Virginia Hitchcock, at Lock Haven, Pa., September 30, 1880. He 
 is a merchant in Renova, Pa. 
 
 The total number of children and grandchildren of the Rev. 
 Samuel Lawrence is forty, of whom thirty-one are now living. 
 
 JACOB HUGHES. 
 
 My great grandfather, on the Hughes side, was Jacob 
 Hughes. He was born, according to the inscription on his tomb- 
 
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 stone in Cold Spring cemetery, in i/ii, and died September 28,- 
 1772, aged sixty-one years. 
 
 My great grandmother, on the Hughes side, was Priscilla 
 Hughes. She was born, according to the inscription on her tomb- 
 stone in the Cold Spring cemetery, in 17 10, and died September 
 21, 1758, aged forty eight years. 
 
 My grandfather, Jacob Hughes, was born August 9, 1746, and 
 died March 20, 1796, aged forty-nine years, seven months, and 
 eleven days. On his tombstone in the Cold Spring cemetery are 
 the following impressive words : 
 
 " Mortals who chance to tread this sacred spot. 
 Look on my tomb and read the human lot, 
 Your flesh like mine, must reunite with clay, 
 To worlds unknown your spirits soar away, 
 I've gone before and you must come behind, 
 Depart from hence and keep this thought in mind." 
 
 My grandmother, Ann Lawrence, (daughter of the Rev. Daniel 
 Lawrence) was born August, 1753, and, after my grandfather's 
 death she married Jeremiah Edmonds, and died November 27, 
 1 8 17, aged sixty-four years and three months, and was buried in 
 the Cold Spring cemetery. 
 
 The Hugheses were early, prominent, and well to-do, settlers in 
 Cape May County. The original settler by this name was, proba- 
 bly, Humphrey Hughes, who, with others, purchased of Doctor 
 Coxe about 540 acres of land as early as 1689. ^^ located on the 
 Bayside of the Lower township, being probably the father of David 
 Hughes, Sr., and the great grandfather -of the late Daniel B., David 
 and Beulah Hughes, of Cold Spring, as also the father of Humph- 
 rey Hughes and his descendants of Cape Island. 
 
 Different persons, however, of the name of Hughes, not related 
 to each other, came to Cape May County at an early day and 
 belong to the old settlers. 
 
 I remember hearing my father say that there were four brothers 
 by the name of Hughes who emigrated from Wales to this country 
 and that one of them, his grandfather, Jacob Hughes, settled in. 
 West Jersey, in the Lower township. His own father's name was 
 Jacob Hughes, an influential man in society and in the church. He 
 owned five farms, and when he died he left them to his heirs. 
 
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 The children of my grandparents, Jacob Hughes and Ann 
 Lawrence Hughes, on my father's side, and including his brothers 
 and sisters, were Jacob, Daniel, Mary, Jeremiah, Elizabeth and 
 James Rainy. 
 
 1. Jacob Hughes, the oldest child, was born about 1777, and 
 died about 1830. He married and had one son, Jacob S. Hughes, 
 who was born in 1803, and died in 1835. Among the early State 
 Military Commissioners of New Jersey, I see that Jacob Hughes, 
 as a Cape May man, was commissioned Lieutenant June 23, 1798. 
 His son, Jacob S., married Rebecca Crawford, of Cold Spring. 
 They had one daughter, Mary Higbee Hughes, who married 
 Joseph Russell, and had eight children, four of whom, viz : Joseph^ 
 Mary, Charles and George are living. Joseph married, has a 
 family and lives in Cold Spring. Mary married William Ruther- 
 ford, has a family, and lives in Cold Spring. The two younger 
 sons live with their mother, who, a widow, married William Trader. 
 Their residence is at Holmesburg, Pa. After Jacob S. died, his 
 widow married Stilwell Stevens. They had twelve children, of 
 whom six are living — one son and five daughters. 
 
 2. Daniel Hughes, M. D., the second son, was born in 1779, and 
 died July 3, 1815, aged thirty-six years. He married and had two 
 sons. 
 
 3. Mary Hughes the oldest daughter, married John Bennett, a 
 Pilot, Their children were WiUiam, Mary Ann, Charlotte and 
 Louisa. 
 
 4. Jeremiah Hughes, the third son, was born in 1783, and died 
 February 23, 18 15, aged thirty-two years. 
 
 5. Elizabeth Hughes, the second daughter, married John Church. 
 Their children were Sophia, Rhoda and Arabella. 
 
 6. The sketch of my father, James Rainy Hughes, will be found 
 on page thirty-eight of this history. 
 
 The above is the Ancestral Record on my father's side. 
 
Mrs, Sarah I), Lawrence. Samuel !•'. I.awreii 
 
 Francis S. Kldredge. Charles H HUiredge. Kihvard I,, l^ldredge. 
 
 William A. Kldredge. Miss Mary Emma Kldredge. Miss Samaria A. Kldredge. 
 
 THE KLlDREDGEi GROUP'. 
 
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 JEREMIAH ELDREDGE. 
 
 It has been stated that, in the early history of New Jersey, 
 Jeremy Eldredge was sent over from England by the King to adjust 
 the l^nd estates of the Lower part of New Jersey. 
 
 The Ancestral Record on my mother's — Eliza Eldredge Hughes 
 — side, is as follows ; 
 
 My GRANDFATHER, Aaron Eldredge, Sr., son of my great grand- 
 father, Jeremiah Eldredge, was born June 13, 1771. He was 
 married to Hannah Langdon, June 17, 1792, at Cape May County, 
 N. J., and died August 21, iSiQ.aged forty-eight years, two months 
 and eight days. He was buried with his fathers in the Cold Spring 
 grave yard. Among the early State Civic Commissioners of New 
 Jersey, I find that my grandfather, Aaron Eldredge, as a Cape May 
 man, was commissioned Surrogate July 31, 1801, and Coroner 
 October 16, 1802,. 
 
 My grandmother, Hannah Langdon Eldredge, his wife, was born 
 December 21, 1774, and died June 6, 1836, aged sixty-one years, five 
 months and fifteen days, and was buried by the side of her husband. 
 She was a prudent, industrious and generous Christian woman. She 
 often visited her only daughter, my mother, and we children always 
 watched the big pocket in the right side of her dress ; for it was 
 always well filled with something good, which she always distributed 
 among us with a smiling face. When a girl she attended the 
 Moravian school at Bethlehem, Pa., and graduated there. She is 
 said to have been the first lady in the Lower township of Cape 
 May county, that had a carriage to ride in. 
 
 The children of my grand parents on my mother's side, and 
 including her brothers, were Jeremiah L., Aaron, Eliza (an only 
 daughter), Joseph, William, Stilwell, George and Ephraim. 
 
 I. Jeremiah Leaming Eldredge, the first child of Aaron and 
 Hannah L. Eldredge, was born at Cape May county, July 14, 1793. 
 He was married to Harriet Tomlin at Goshen, Cape May county, 
 August 16, 1821, and died suddenly of cholera, July 10 1849, aged 
 fifty-five years, eleven months and twenty-six days. He was buried 
 in the Cold Spring Presbyterian church yard. The following 
 inscription is on his tombstone — 
 
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 " Weep not for me, my wife and children dear, 
 
 I am not dead, but only sleeping here ; 
 
 Our parting's short, we soon shall meet again, 
 
 There sighing ne'er shall come, nor death e'er reign." 
 
 Harriet Tomlin Eldredge, his wife, daughter of Wilham and 
 Sarah Tomlin, was born in Cumberland county, N. J., December 3, 
 1805, She died October 23, 1863, aged fifty-seven years, ten 
 months and twenty days, and was buried in the C Id Spring church 
 yard. The following is inscribed on her tombstone: 
 
 OUR MOTHER. 
 
 " All heart could wish lies buried here. 
 Of mother, wife, or friend sincere; 
 From day to day she meek'.y trod, 
 In duty's path and served her God." 
 
 The following are the names, births, and histories of their twelve 
 children. 
 
 1st. William Tomlin Eldredge, the first child of Jeremiah L. and 
 Harriet T. Eldredge, was born at Cape May, N. J., October 19, 
 1822, and died December 4, 1888, aged sixty-six years, one month and 
 fifteen days. He was a Delaware Bay and River Pilot, and followed 
 this business for a living until his death. He was married to Arabella 
 Corson, of Petersburg, N. J. When he died, he left, besides his 
 wife, six children, all married as follows : — 
 
 (i). Stilwell Eldredge, who is in government employ at the Life 
 Saving Station at Cape May Point. He married Ella Hand. They 
 have no child living. 
 
 (2). Ellis Corson Eldredge. He is a Delaware Bay and River 
 Pilot. He married Emma Robinson. They have two children — 
 Flora Keler Eldredge and Elsie Dinsmore Eldredge. 
 
 (3). Lewis Eldredge. He is assistant at the Cape May light 
 house. His first wife was May Harris. They had two children — 
 one son, Harold Eldredge, and one daughter, Ida May Eldredge. 
 His second wife was Miss Weeks. 
 
 (4). Walter Eldredge. who is engaged in the grocery and fruit 
 business at Haddonfield, N.J. He married Mrs. Kate Crcsse Worth. 
 They have one child, Walter Eldredge. 
 
 (5). Livingston Eldredge. He is by trade a carpenter. He 
 married Judith Hoffman. They have one daughter, Florence 
 Eldredge, and reside at West Cape May, 
 
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 (6). Elizabeth Eldredge, who married Williara Hemsley, a 
 wheelwright and painter. Thev live at Bridgetcn, N. J., and have 
 five children, May, Raleigh, Joseph, Harriet and William Hemsley. 
 
 2d. Samuel Eldredge was the second child of Jeremiah L. and 
 Harriet T. Eldredge, and was born March 30, 1824, and diedx\pril 
 26, 1824. aged twtnty-six days. 
 
 3d, Eliza Ellen Eldredge, the third child of Jeremiah L. and 
 Harriet T. Eldredge, was born June, 1825, and died, but there is 
 no record of her death. 
 
 4th. Eliza Eldredge, the fourth child of Jeremiah L. and Harriet 
 T. Eldredge, was born August 7, 1826. She married Humphrey 
 Hughes, Jr., of Cape May City, who was also a Delaware Bay and 
 River Pilot. They have two children, Adrian Bateman Hughes 
 and Harriet Eldredge Hughes. Adrian B. married a lady at 
 Wilmington, Del., and she and their two children reside there. He 
 himself is chief engineer ot an ocean steamer trading on the Pacific 
 ocean. Harriet E. married Michael Augustus Lengert, a merchant 
 in Philadelphia, Pa. They have four children, tw^o sons and two 
 daughters. 
 
 5th. The fifth child, a son of Jeremiah L. and Harriet T. Eldredge^ 
 was born October 17, 1828. No name was given it; it died 
 December 24, 1828, aged two months and seven days. 
 
 6th. Charles Eldredge, the sixth child of Jeremiah L. and Harriet 
 T. Eldredge, was born February 18, 1830. He learned the carpen- 
 ter's trade, and married Elizabeth Tomlin, of Goshen, Cape May 
 county. They bought a farm near Shiloh, Cumberland county, N. 
 J., and still occupy it. They have lost, I think, two children, and 
 have the following five now livins — Jennie, the wife of Samuel 
 Craig ; Judith Tomlin Eldredge, unmarried ; Abbie, the wife of 
 John Harris, of Shiloh ; Hattie Eldredge, not yet married, and 
 Paul, the youngest, a son of about 20 years of age. 
 
 7th. Jeremiah L. Eldredge, the seventh child of Jeremiah L. and 
 Harriet T. Eldredge, was born November 21, 1831. He is also a 
 Delaware Bay and River Pilot, and is now following it for a liveli- 
 hood. He married Mary Marshall of West Philadelphia. They 
 have three children now living, viz. : — Ida May Eldredge, born 
 September 12, 1858. John Marshall Eldredge, born February 21, 
 i860, and George Horn Eldredge, born December 7, 1872. They 
 
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 have also lost two children — Alonzo Eldredge, born May 3, 1856, 
 and died August 31, 1862, and Frank Hilworth Eldredge, born 
 September 15, 1S62, and died March 4, 1867. 
 
 8th. Nelson Tomlin Eldredge, the eighth child, of Jsremiah L, 
 and Harriet T. Eldredge, was born October 13, 1833, ^^^ ^'^^ 
 June 16, 1886, aged fifty-two years, eight months and three days, and 
 was buried in the Cold Spring cemetery. He was a farmer. He 
 also served three years as Sheriff of Cape May county. He married 
 Deborah V. B. Hand, daughter of Aaron Hand, of New England, 
 Cape May county. They had five children, Maryetta Eldredge, 
 who died, and the four following who are now living — Southard 
 Eldredge, Eliza Eldredge, Jacob Smallwood Eldredge, and WoodrufT 
 Eldredge. 
 
 9th. Francis Springer Eldredge, the ninth child of Jeremiah L. 
 and Harriet T. Eldredge, was born April 22, 1836. He is also a 
 Delaware Bay and River Pilot, and is now following that business for 
 a living. He married Elizabeth Edmunds Johnson, daughter of 
 Noah and Jane Johnson, of West Cape May. They have three 
 sons — Loring Brewster Eldredge, Joseph Johnson Eldredge, and 
 Francis Goodell Eldredge, the youngest, in his thirteenth year. 
 They call him Goodell, and when they write his name, they write 
 F. Goodell Eldredge. Joseph Johnson Eldredge, the second son, 
 married Hannah Hand, the daughter of W. F. Hand, a pilot now 
 deceased. They have one child about lour years old, Francis S. 
 Eldredge, named after his grandfather. Francis S. Eldredge, Sr , 
 owns a cottage at Cape May City, N. J., but sometimes he resides 
 in Philadelphia. 
 
 loth. James Smith Eldredge, the tenth child of Jeremiah L. and 
 Harriet T. Eldredge, was born September 28, 1839. He was a 
 farmer, and for several years was mail agent on the West Jersey 
 Railroad, between Philadelphia and Cape May City, and afterwards 
 he was a coal dealer at Cape May City. He married Letitia Stimpson, 
 daughter of Charles P. Stimpson, of Lower township. Cape May 
 county, N. J. They had three children. The oldest child was 
 named Charles Stimpson Eldredge, who is married to a lady m 
 Da\'ton, Ohio, and is settled there as a marble cutter. The second 
 son of James S. and Letitia S. Eldredge is Augustus Eldredge. He 
 is unmarried, lives in Philadelphia, and is employed as a clerk 
 
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 in a store there. The third child of James S. and Letitia S. 
 Eldredge is a daughter, named Clara. She is now living with and 
 taking care of her step-grandmother at Cape May City, who was 
 the second wife and is now the widow of Charles P. Stimpson. 
 James Smith Eldredge's wife, Letitia, died when Clara was a small 
 child He again married a Miss Gardener, of South Vineland, N. 
 J. They had one son. James afterwards located at Springfield, 
 Illinois, where he now resides. During the Civil War, he enlisted 
 in Company F, Twenty-fifth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, 
 for nine full months, from September, 1862 to September, 1863, 
 
 nth. Harriet Eldredge, the eleventh child of Jeremiah L. and 
 Harriet T. Eldredge, was born December 20, 1841. She was 
 married to John Parsons, a farmer in Lower township. Cape May 
 county. They have five children — three daughters and two sons. 
 Elizabeth, the oldest daughter, married William Ritter, of Philadel- 
 phia. Maggie married Frank Taylor, of Philadelphia, and Emma, 
 unmarried, who is now employed in the post office at Cape May 
 City. The two sons, Robert Parsons and Augustus Lengert 
 Parsons are living at home with their parents. 
 
 1 2th. George Emma Eldredge, the youngest daughter and the 
 twelfth and last child of Jeremiah L. and Harriet T. Eldredge, was 
 born September 23, 1845. She married William C. Town, son of 
 Richard Town, of Cape May. They own ixnd live on a farm which 
 was formerly a part of the farm and homestead of Jeremiah L. 
 Eldredge and Harriet T., his wife, located on the landing road to 
 Cape May City. They have four children — three daughters and 
 one son. The oldest daughter, Harriet, married a young man by 
 the name of Lot Cresse, and they have one child about a year old. 
 Lizzie C. Town is a teacher, and Charles, the son, with Ada, the 
 youngest daughter, are living with their parents at home. 
 
 2. Aaron Eldredge, Jr., the second child of Aaron and Hannah 
 L. Eldredge, was born June 6, 1795, and died August 10, 1832, 
 aged thirty-seven years, two months and four days. Hannah 
 Eldredge, his wife, was born June 14. 1800, and died April 21, 
 1 83 1, aged thirty years, ten months and seven days. Eh Hickman 
 Eldredge was their only child. He was born at Cape May, N. J., 
 March 3, 1825, and died in Philadelphia, at the age of thirty-nine 
 years, of typhoid fever. He was married to Miss Mary Moore 
 
Brunner, of Philadelphia, by Rev. Kzra Stiles Ely, D. D., July 2i, 
 1846. Their union was blessed with seven children. 
 
 Anna Mary — died of Peretonitis, asjed fourteen years. 
 
 Ella Virginia — married William Stuart King. 
 
 Elizabeth Brunner — died of Scarlet Fever, aged five years. 
 
 Eli Hickman — married Helen Mar Van Dyke. 
 
 Abraham Brunner — died of Pneumonia, aged five years. 
 
 Edward Langdon — unmarried. 
 
 Emma Shepherd — married John Franklin Soby. 
 
 Mr. Eldredge developed into the highest type of man in honor, 
 integrity and virtue. He was ever mindful of the poor and needy, 
 and during all his life he took a great interest in religious matters, 
 being for a number of years a ruling elder in the Buttonwood Street 
 Presbyterian Church. He was a School Director of the John 
 Hancock Public School on Twelfth and Fairmount avenue ; was a 
 Colonel of Governor Pollock's staff; was a Fairmount Park 
 Commissioner ; was a Freemason, and was a member of the order 
 of Odd Fellows. His business was that of a merchant tailor. 
 
 3. Eliza Eldredge, the only daughter, will have her history 
 sketched elsewhere. 
 
 4. Joseph Eldredge, the fourth child of Aaron and Hannah L. 
 Eldredge was born August 7, 1798, and died March 21, 1879, aged 
 eighty years, seven months and fourteen days. He was always 
 pleasant and accommodating, and a consistent Christian. The 
 inscription on his tombstone in the Cold Spring Presbyterian 
 cemetery is — " Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." 
 He was married at Cape May, N. J., September 22, 1830, to Mrs, 
 Ann Morgan Cox West, by Rev. Israel Townsend. She was born 
 Mav 18, 1800, and died July 20, 1880, aged eighty years, two months 
 and two days, and was buried beside her husband. The inscription 
 on her tombstone is — " Blessed are the merciful, for they shall 
 obtain mercy." 
 
 The children of Joseph and Ann Morgan Eldredge were four. 
 Harriet Ann Wales Eldredge, born June 17, 183 1 ; Sarah Edmonds 
 Eldredge, born August 22, 1833 ; Joseph Cox Eldredge, the only 
 son, born July 9, 1836, and Eliza Theresa Eldredge, born December 
 13. 1839. "^he second and third daughters are both dead. Sarah 
 E. died October 11, 1856, aged twenty-three years, one month and 
 
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 nineteen days. Eliza Tlieresa, died April 12, 1883, aged forty-three 
 years, three months and twenty-nine days. 
 
 Harriet Ann W. Eldredge married James Learning, who is in the 
 real estate business. They had five children — two sons and a 
 daughter died. Two sons are living. Joseph E. Leaming and 
 Mortimer Leaming. 
 
 Joseph Cox Eldredge and Ocie Bennett were married at Cape 
 May City, June 9, 1869, by Rev. John H. Leggett. He is both a 
 storekeeper and a farmer. 
 
 George Bennett Kldredge, their oldest son, was born March 25, 
 1870, and died July 14, 1874, aged four years, three months and 
 nineteen days. 
 
 Irvin Howard Eldredge, their second son, was born March 22, 
 1875. 
 
 Ocie May Eldredge, their only daughter, was born May 11, 
 1876. 
 
 5. Captain William Eldredge, the fifth child of Aaron and 
 Hannah L. Eldredge was born at the Cold Spring homestead April 
 30, 1804, and died June 29, 1886, aged eighty-two years and two 
 months. He was married at Somers Point, N. J., September 6, 1828, 
 to Esther A. Ireland, the daughter of Elijah Ireland, of Estellville, 
 N. J. She was born at Somers Point, N. J., July 8, i8ri. Her 
 mother, Rachel Somers, it is said, was the third descendant from 
 John Somers, who came from Worcester, England, in 1668, and was 
 a cousin to John Lord, the first Earl of Hardwick, England. 
 
 The foUowmg was published of Captain Eldredge in a Cape May 
 paper : 
 
 death of WILLIAM ELDREDGE. 
 
 " Captain William Eldredge, a life-long resident of Cold Spring, 
 departed this life on Tuesday, June 29, 1886, at the age of eighty- two 
 years, and two months, having been born on April 30, 1804. 
 
 For about three years Captain Eldredge had suffered from cancer 
 in the face, bearing his affliction with the greatest fortitude and 
 patience. Since his twenty-first year he had been a consistent 
 member of the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, and in time of 
 need he found the promises of the Gospel safe and sure. 
 
 The deceased was born within a few hundred yards of his late 
 
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 residence. In September, 1828, he married a Miss Ireland, at 
 Somers Point, they hving together fifty-seven years and nine months. 
 She survives him, and is quite active for one of her years, being 
 seventy-six years old yesterday, 8th inst, (July, 1886). 
 
 The funeral took place on Friday, July 2, attended by all the mem- 
 bers of his immediate family, except one son, Wm. A. Eldredge, who 
 is station agent at Memphis, Tenn., on the Louisville, Texas and 
 New Orleans Railroad. Rev. Mr. Landis preached an excellent 
 funeral discourse in the old church on the occasion. 
 
 Thus alter a remarkably long- and active life, upright and honor- 
 able, passed away the .spirit of one sure of eternal rest and reward." 
 They had nine children. 
 
 1st. Rachel Somers Eldredge, who was married twice. Her 
 first husband was George Higbee Stevens, son of Ezekiel Stevens, 
 Esq., of Cold Spring. They had one child, Lois H. Stevens. She 
 has been married twice. Her first husband was William Eldredge, 
 of Cape May County. Her present husband is D. E. Mathis, of New 
 Gretna, Burlington county, N J. Rachel Stevens' second husband 
 was James Mecray, of Cape May City. They had one child, Rachel 
 S. Mecray. She is married to Joseph T. Dolby, of Philadelphia. 
 Her mother died at Cape May City, December 24, 1870, and was 
 buried in the Cold Spring church yard. 
 
 2d, Sarah W. Eldredge, married Constantine Somers, of Somers 
 Point, and resided at Cape May City, He died January 8, and 
 was buried at Somers Point, N, J., January 14, 1891 
 
 3d. Mary Benner Eldred^'e, the third child of Captain William 
 and Esther A. Eldredge, married Frederick G. Dodson, of Hazleton, 
 Pa. They now live in Tempe, Arizona, where he is engaged in 
 the banking business, 
 
 4th. Hannah A, Eldredge, married Dewitt Clinton Crowell, of 
 Norfolk, Virginia. They were married in the Cold Sprmg Pres- 
 byterian church. Cape May. They lived in Norfolk, Va., until his 
 death, which occurred November 24, 1874. His widow and family 
 moved to Philadelphia, in the beginning of the year, 1875, where 
 they still reside. Four daughters were the fruits of this marriage, 
 (i) Mary C, Crowell, (2) Dessa W. Crowell, (3) Eva J. Crowell, 
 (4) Hannah M. Crowell. Dessa W. is married to John B. Clement, 
 of Philadelphia. 
 
2d. 
 
 5th. Aaron Eldredge, who died when a child. 
 
 6th. Captain John Somers Eldredge was married three times, and 
 has three sons. His first wife was Mary Collier Gibson, of Richmond, 
 Virginia, They had one son, Dewitt C. Eldredge, His second 
 wife was May Brown, of Seaford, Delaware. His present wife is 
 Sarah Janney, of Baltimore, Maryland. They have two sons, John 
 Somers Eldredge and Pemberton Eldredge. 
 
 Captain John Somers Eldredge has been for many years engaged 
 in the Old Bay Line Steamship Company, residing the most of his 
 time in Norfolk, Virginia. 
 
 7th. Emmaline Vangilder Eldredge, resides with her sister, Mrs. 
 Hannah A. Crowell, in Philadelphia. 
 
 8th. William Augustus Eldredge. He is a Claim Agent for the 
 Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railroad, and resides at 
 Memphis, Tennessee, He is unmarried. 
 
 9th. Eliza Langdon Eldredge, the youngest and unmarried, 
 resides with her mother on the old homestead at Cold Spring, 
 Cape May county. 
 
 6. Stilwell Eldredge, the sixth child of Aaron and Hannah L. 
 Eldredge was born at Cape May, August 6, 1806, and died in 
 Philadelphia, July 14, 1849, aged forty-two years, eleven months and 
 eight days. In his early years his parents sent him to Philadelphia 
 to learn the tailoring and clothing business, and he continued 
 in it, with varied successes, all his life. He was married September 
 2, 1830, to Mary Benner, by Rev. Charles Hoover, She was born 
 in Philadelphia, December 18, 181 2, and was married there the 
 second time to a Mr. Young, and died November 24, 1882, aged 
 sixty-nine years, eleven months and six days. 
 
 Mr, Eldredge was for many years an active member of the First 
 Presbyterian Church, Northern Liberties, of Philadelphia, and he 
 was, also, for many years an active member of its Board of Trustees. 
 His son, Charles H. Eldredge, writes me, — " Father died suddenly. 
 He and mother had been down to Cape May to attend the funeral 
 of his brother Jeremiah (who had died suddenly of cholera). They 
 arrived home on Friday morning. Father was taken down with 
 the cholera and died on the next day, Saturday, about nine o'clock 
 in the evening." How sudden ! How solemn ! Surely in the 
 midst of life, we are in death. 
 
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 The following beautiful testimonial of Mrs. Mary Benner Eldredge 
 (Young) was written by her former pastor the Rev. Thomas J, 
 Shepherd, D. D. "Died on the evening of Friday, November 24, 
 1882, at the residence of her daughter, Miss Emma L. Eldredge, 
 near Wayne station, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, Mrs. Mary B. 
 Young, in the seventieth year of her age. More than fifty years 
 ago, amid the scenes of a powerful revival of religion in the First 
 Presbyterian Church, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, Rev. James 
 Patterson, pastor, Mrs. Young made a public profession of her faith 
 and hope in the Lord Jesus. Through a long life she witnessed the 
 sincerity of the profession then made by a singularly earnest piety, 
 and by the heartiest sympathy with all that is pure and lovely. She 
 was pre-eminently a good woman, revealing as wife and mother, in 
 the sheltered world of home, the finest traits of consecrated woman- 
 hood, and displaying in the wider spheres of social life and of 
 Christian activity whatever is generous in friendship and graceful 
 in charity. She loved God's house, never absenting herself either 
 from the throng of public worshippers or from the smaller band of 
 praying ones. She loved God's people and God's ministers, identi- 
 fying herself with all plans and agencies for doing good, and giving 
 to each of the pastors she had known the fullest confidence and 
 the best help. Among the latest utterances of her trust in the 
 Divine Saviour, and of her assured hope of eternal blessedness 
 through Him, were touchingly mingled very tender messages to 
 her Christian friends, and urgent charges to her children not to 
 forget the church of her early vows and life-long love. When at 
 length the silver cord which bound her to earth was about to be 
 loosed, she sank into the quiet sleep of a little child, and awaked 
 in the home of the glorified. ' And there shall be no night there ; 
 and they need no candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God 
 giveth them light ; and they shall reign forever and ever.' " 
 
 Stilwell Eldredge and Mary Benner Eldredge, had the following 
 seven children : 
 
 Charles Hoover Eldredge, born June 13, 1831. 
 
 Emma Lamier Eldredge, born August 25, 1833. 
 
 James Henry Stevens Eldredge, born September 12, 1835, and 
 died March 19, 1879, aged 43 )iears, six months and seven days. 
 
 George Patterson Eldredge, born September i, 1838. 
 
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 Mary Adelaide Eldredge, born December 27, 1840. 
 
 Anna Louisa Carroll Eldredge, born October i, 1843, and died 
 May 6, 1845, aged one year, seven months and five days. 
 
 Anna Caroline Ely Eldredge, born January 30 1846, and died 
 April 3, 1849, aged three years, three months and three days. 
 
 All the dead are buried in the Laurel Hill cemetery, Philadelphia. 
 The living are — 
 
 I St. Charles H. Eldredge, the first son of Stilwell and Mary B. 
 Eldredge, was pious, consistent, kind and true from his youth up. 
 He early learned the tailoring and clothing business in the reliable 
 firm of Painter & Eldredge, corner of /th and Market streets, Phila- 
 delphia, and adhered to it faithfully. As a man he has had a lovely 
 disposition, easy manners, steady habits, an accommodating and 
 benevolent spirit, and has been a faithful husband and an affectionate 
 father. He has been an active and useful member in the Presby- 
 terian Church from his manhood. He united with the First 
 Presbyterian Church of Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, April, 
 1848, in his seventeenth year, and he was for ten years an acceptable 
 trustee of that church. Afterwards he was an honored trustee for 
 fifteen years in the Wayne Presbyterian Church, and for sixteen years 
 its successful Sabbath School Superintendent. He has been a man 
 of strict integrity, and a successful merchant tailor at 113 South 
 Ninth street, Philadelphia, He found a good wife from the Lord, 
 and we read that on November 27, 1855, Charles Hoover Eldredge 
 was married to Sarah Ann Harrington, by Rev. Charles D. Cooper. 
 She was born August 23, 1832. This union was blessed with two 
 children, a daughter and a son, viz.: — 
 
 (i). Maria Florence Eldredge, born November 14, 1856, and 
 married on Thursday, July 24, 1890, in the Presbyterian Church of 
 Wayne, Pa., to Oliver Sloan Haines, M. D., of Philadelphia, by the 
 pastor. Rev. William A. Patton, assisted by the Rev. George T. 
 Purves, D. D., of Pittsburg, Pa. 
 
 (2.) Charles Stilwell Eldredge, born November 20, 1859. He 
 was married December, 1880, to Helen G. Montgomery, who died 
 March 15, 1886. Their children were — Charles H. Eldredge, born 
 December 23, 1881, and died September 12, 1887, aged five years, 
 eight months and nineteen days, and Howard Montgomery Eldredge, 
 born August 19, 1884. 
 
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 2d. James Henry Stevens Eldredge, the second son of Stilwell 
 and Mary B. Eldredge, was educated in the public and high schools 
 of Philadelphia. He was a (iiligent student — early made a profession 
 of religion in the Baptist Church — was married February i6, 1861, 
 to Eliza F. Linerd — was a successful teacher, and was an active and 
 devoted worker in his Master's vineyard until called away by death. 
 The following just memorial that was pulished of him in one of the 
 Philadelphia papers, is full, satisfactory and highly creditable : — 
 
 IN MEMQRIAM. 
 
 James Henry Eldredge was born in this city in September, 1835. 
 He was one of the first pupils of the Hancock Grammar School, 
 located at Twelfth and Coates streets, then in charge of Professor 
 Nicholas H. Maguire. He entered the High School in 1848, and, 
 after finishing the course of study prescribed in that institution, he 
 was admitted to the Lewisburg University, where he remained for 
 several years. Shortly after leaving college he became a teacher, 
 creditably filling each position to which he was called. His marked 
 ability as an instructor and disciplinarian secured for him the 
 Principalship of the Hancock Boy's Grammar School in this city, 
 when Prof. Maguire resigned that position to take charge of the 
 Central High School. In this school he was remarkably successful. 
 Entirely devoted to the interests of his pupils, unceasing in his 
 efforts for their moral and mental improvement, thoroughly imbued 
 with a love for his work, able, enterprising and persevering, there 
 could be but one result. He won the regard of his pupils, he was 
 their friend as well as their teacher, and when he passed from the 
 school room into another vocation, he carried with him the respect 
 and love of all. 
 
 Engaging in business in 1865, as a member of the firm of Eldredge 
 & Brother, he exhibited the same degree of enterprise, industry and 
 ability that marked his character as a teacher, and aided largely in 
 establishing the house in its present position. 
 
 But the qualities which most endeared him to his friends were 
 his singularly mild and gentle disposition; his open hand and heart; 
 his eagerness to assist those who needed help ; and, above all, his 
 earnest, childlike. Christian faith and belief 
 
 Every life that bears an impress for good on those with whom it is 
 
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 brought in contact, is a successful life, and in this respect the life 
 of James H. Eldredge was a success in the grandest, noblest sense 
 of the word. Let those of us who knew and loved him take the 
 lesson of his life into our hearts. While the eye may grow dim 
 with tears, and the heart throb with sorrow at the thought that we 
 have parted with him forever, yet let us "rejoice and be exceeding 
 glad" with the comforting thought that he has entered into his 
 reward ; that for him there is no more pain, no more sorrow, no 
 more anguish. And let us, from his earnest, beautiful life, and his 
 peaceful passing to rest, learn so to live that when our summons 
 comes, we may, like him, 
 
 '• Sustained and soothed 
 By an unfaltering trust, approach our graves, 
 Like one that draws the drapery of his couch 
 About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." 
 
 Two children were born to James H. and Eliza F. Eldredge, viz: 
 
 Joseph Linerd Eldredge, born November 26, 1861, and Anna 
 Eldredge, born June 5, 1866. 
 
 3d. George Patterson Eldredge, third son of Stilwell and Mary 
 B. Eldredge, received his education in the public schools of Phila- 
 delphia — taught for some years in Central Pennsylvania — married 
 Miss Lizzie Wallace, of Sinking Valley, Blair County, Pa., and 
 afterwards, in 1865, went into the book business with his brother 
 James H. Eldredge, in Philadelphia. He has been an enterprising, 
 energetic and successful business man. 
 
 4th. Emma L. Eldredge, and 5th. Mary Adelaide Eldredge, the 
 first and second daughters, and the only daughters now living, of 
 Stilwell and Mary B. Eldredge, received each an excellent education 
 in the varied schools of Philadelphia — early enlisted their energies 
 in the cause ot Christ — devoted themselves especially to the cause 
 of education, and have been very successful teachers in several 
 important schools, both in Philadelphia and in its vicinity. They 
 have exerted a wide and commanding influence for good upop 
 many children and youth for both the present and coming generations. 
 All such are truly blessed. 
 
 7. Hon. George M. Eldredge was the seventh child of Aaron 
 and Hannah L. Eldredge. I copy the following of him from the 
 
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 Rev. Dr. S. J. M. Eaton's biographical catalogue of Washington and 
 Jefferson college, Pa., published in 1889: — 
 
 "Born at Cold Spring, Cape May County, N. J., December 6, 
 18 10; graduated at Jeflferson College, Pa., 1837; teacher and law 
 student at Lowndes County, Ala., '38 ; practiced law Haynesville^ 
 Ala., '40 — '50, De Soto Parish, La., '50; President Police Jury, and 
 Judge Supreme Court of Southern District of Louisiana; Louisiana 
 Legislature '66 — '62>; British Honduras '68 — '70; Vermilion Parish, 
 La., '70 — 'Z6; Louisiana Legislature '84; Elder Presbyterian Church; 
 married '42, Emma E. Frierson ; died at his residence, Abbeville, 
 La., after a long illness, April 27, 1886, aged seventy-five years, four 
 months and twenty-one days." 
 
 An Abbeville, La., paper certified that — " He was a man of firm 
 integrity, spotless honor, and strong convictions. So highly 
 impressed were our people with his mental and moral merit that 
 they chose him (much against his own inclinations and despite his 
 advancing years) by an overwhelming majority to represent them 
 in the Legislature. Here he soon made his mark. In his death 
 his family have lost a loving parent, his friends a prudent counselor,, 
 the parish an honored citizen and a wise and faithful official." On 
 his monument in the Masonic cemetery, Abbeville, Louisiana, are 
 inscribed the following beautiful words, " He has crossed over the 
 river, and rests under the shadow of the tree of life." 
 
 Mrs. Emma Elizabeth (Frierson) Eldredge, his wife, daughter 
 of John and Elizabeth Mary (Witten) Frierson, was born July 5, 
 1819, at Charleston, South Carolina, and died at her home near 
 Abbeville, La., January i, 1890, aged seventy years, six months. 
 She was beautiful in her old age, a model of patience and christian 
 resignation. Their daughter, Mary Emma Eldredge, and their son 
 Marion Langdon Eldredge with his family, still live to mourn their 
 double loss ; while their first child, George Frierson Eldredge, who 
 was born in Lowndes county, Alabama, June 10, 1843, died in 
 Augusta, Georgia, September 15, 1844, and was buried in Lowndes 
 county, Alabama. I add the following published record from 
 the "Vermilion Star," Abbeville, La., January 3, 1890. "Mrs. 
 Emma E. Eldredge was born in Charleston, South Carolina, but 
 moved to Louisiana soon after her marriage, settling in De Soto 
 parish, where her brothers. Dr. George and Robert Frierson had 
 
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 preceded her. She leaves a son and daughter and a large family 
 of relatives to mourn her loss; and in this hour of sadness we 
 intermingle our tears with theirs, for we know how dearly beloved 
 she was, and how much dear Aunt Emma will be missed by those 
 whom she loved. She has gone where loved ones stand waiting 
 anxiously for her coming." 
 
 Mary Emma, daughter of George M. and Emma E. Eldredge, 
 was born March 4, 1846, Lowndes county, Ala. ; is an excellent 
 christian lady, enjoys only moderate health, and lives pleasantly 
 with her kind brother and his family on their home estate near 
 Abbeville, La. 
 
 Marion Langdon, son of George M. and Emma E. Eldredge, 
 was born May 24, 1848, Lowndes county, Alabama, and was 
 married to Daisy Alison, daughter of Lockwood and Ann Judson 
 Alison, December, 19, 1878, De Soto parish. La. Daisy Alison 
 was born September 15, 1857, De Soto parish. La. Her lather was 
 a physician, (M. D.) and her grandfather on her mother's side was 
 a Baptist clergyman, the Rev. Jesse Hartwell, D. D. He was born 
 in Massachusetts, and labored in Louisiana and Arkansas. He 
 died at Mount Lebanon, La. Her father is still a practicing 
 physician in De Soto parish, La., at eighty-four years of age. 
 
 The children of Marion L. and Daisy A. Eldredge are — 
 
 (i) Langdon Marion Eldredge, born September 25, 1879, in 
 Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. 
 
 (2) Hartwell Alison Eldredge, born July 6, 1881, in Vermilion 
 Parish, Louisiana. 
 
 (3) George M. Eldredge, born August 11, 1883, in Vermilion 
 Parish, Louisiana, 
 
 (4) Annie Lucile Eldredge, born July 2, 1886, in Vermilion 
 Parish Louisiana. All the children are well behaved, and the 
 family is a very pleasant one. 
 
 8. Ephraim Eldredge, the eighth and last child of Aaron and 
 Hannah L. Eldredge, was born at Cape May, N, J., October 6. 
 1812. After receiving the usual common school education he was 
 sent by his parents to Philadelphia, to learn the bookbinding business, 
 and placed under the care of a worthy and reliable firm there. This 
 was the main business of his life, and he became master of it. He 
 united upon profession of faith with the Baptist Church, and on 
 
September 22, 1835, ^^^ was married to Sarah Paj-ran, by the Rev, 
 John L. Grant, of the Presbyterian Church, of Philadelphia. He was 
 a deacon in the First Baptist Church until the time of his death, a 
 period of fifteen years. He departed this life at his own residence, 
 No. 13 W. Barnard street, West Chester, Pa., August 13, 1887. aged 
 seventy-four years, ten months and seven days, and was buried 
 August 17, at Oakland cemetery. West Chester, Pa. His memory 
 is blessed. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Payran Eldredge, his Avidow, was born in Phila- 
 delphia, Pa., March 8, 18 13, and still lives with their youngest 
 daughter, Miss Samaria Anna Eldredge, at West Chester, Pa. 
 
 Ephraim and Sarah P. Eldredge had eight children — four sons 
 and four daughters — all born in Philadelphia, Pa., except the fourth 
 child who was born at Cape May, N. J. Of these five are now 
 living, three sons and two daughters — all professors of religion, and 
 all married but one, the youngest daughter. 
 
 1st. Livingston Aaron Eldredge, born August 5, 1836, and died. 
 May 15, 1837, aged nine months and ten days. 
 
 2d. Livingston Aaron Eldredge, born January i, 1838. He 
 learned the carpenter's trade ; was married to Rachel L. Freason, 
 October 5, 1869, by Rev. R. H. Patterson, of the M. E. Church 
 Philadelphia, Pa., and resides at Hammonton, Atlantic County, New 
 Jersey. Livingston A. and Rachel L. Eldredge have one daughter, 
 Ida May Eldredge. 
 
 3d. Salonia Imlah Eldredge, born May 25, 1840; was married 
 to William Bernshouse August 20, 1863, by Rev. Thomas Davis, 
 of the Baptist Church, of Hammonton, New Jersey, where they 
 now reside, her husband's occupation being that oi a builder and 
 contractor. Three sons and one daughter have been added to their 
 household — William Henry Bernshouse, Albert Livingston Berns- 
 house, Andrew Hays Bernshouse, and Samaria Anna Bernshouse. 
 The eldest son, William Henry Bernshouse was married May 30, 
 1890, to Rosetta Taylor, of Maryland. 
 
 4th. Barrington Sanford Eldredge was born at Cape May, N. J., 
 ^March 26, 1843 ; is by occupation a bookbinder and stationer ; was 
 married first, to Ettie Blanche McDowell, March 28, 1864, by Rev. 
 P. S. Henson, D. D., of the Baptist Church, of Philadelphia, and 
 was married second, to Sallie A. McLean, November 7, 1887, by 
 
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 Rev. I. B. Hartman, D. D., of Central Baptist Church, Trenton, N. 
 J. He has one daughter and one son — Florence Beatrice Eldredge 
 and Harry Barrington Eldredge. 
 
 5th. Anna Samaria Eldredge, born May 13, 1845, and died August 
 13, 1847, aged two years and three months. 
 
 6th. Sarah Eldredge, born June 17, 1847, ^'^^ *^i^^ September 12, 
 1847, aged two months and twenty-five days. 
 
 7th. William Henry Eldredge was born July 3, 1848 ; is a Baptist 
 minister; was married to Maurie Annie Souder, May 17, 1885, by 
 Rev. E. L. Magoon, D. D., of the Broad Street Baptist Church, of 
 Philadelphia. They reside in East Stroudsburg, Monroe County, 
 Pa., and have one daughter — Clara Henson Eldredge. 
 
 8th. Samaria Anna Eldredge was born December 13, 1851; is 
 unmarried ; is a successful school teacher, and resides with her 
 mother at West Chester, Chester County, Pa. 
 
 The total number of children, grandchildren and great-grand- 
 children of the Eldredge group of families; separate from the daugh- 
 ter, Eliza Eldredge, is one hundred and forty-four, of whom one 
 hundred and seven are now living — the most of whom are professors 
 of religion and all are doing well. A goodly number to live and 
 work for Jesus i 
 
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 JAMES RAINY HUGHES. 
 
 My FATHER — James Rainy Hughes — was the youngest child of 
 Jacob and Ann Lawrence Hughes, 
 
 My 'MOTHER — Eliza Eldredge Hughes — was the third child, 
 and the only daughter of Aaron and Hannah Langdon Eldredge. 
 Both my father and mother were healthy and vigorous. They were 
 endowed with good bodies, good minds and good hearts. 
 
 They had twelve children — six sons and six daughters — viz : — 
 Jeremiah Eldredge, Ann Lawrence, Daniel Lawrence, Joseph 
 Eldredge, William Giddis, Harriet Newell, James Potter, Hannah 
 Eliza, Mary Bennett, Emma Melinda, Amelia Foster and Jacob 
 Van Rensalear. 
 
 As to the history of my parents, I would say — my father was born 
 in the New England settlement. Lower township, Cape May County, 
 N. J., July 6, 1791. My mother was born in the Cold Spring 
 settlement, same township and county, December 15, 1796. They 
 were married January 9, 181 5. 
 
 My father was only four years and eight months old when his 
 father died, and after some years his mother was married again to 
 Jeremiah Edmonds. 
 
 As his father had left him a farm adjoining that of his oldest 
 brother, Jacob, it seems that the arrangement was made, as my 
 father told me, that this brother should manage both farms, educate 
 James, and provide for him nntil he was of age and could come 
 legally into the possession of his own farm. Accordingly he was 
 sent away at a suitable age to the Bridgeton Academy, Cumberland 
 County, N. J., the best school in that whole region. He remained 
 there as a diligent and successful student ; mastering Navigation, 
 Mensuration, Surveying and Philosophy, as well as the common 
 branches of study, until he was eighteen years of age. Then he 
 was called home to take charge of a school in his native township. 
 And so well was he prepared for this work by his attainments, 
 industry, energy and skill in discipline, that he won readily the 
 confidence of all his patrons. He Avas so successful in his teaching 
 that he made it ever after, in connection with the oversight of his 
 farm, for forty years, a life work in his own neighborhood — either 
 
James Rainy Hughes. Mrs Eliza 1\. Hughes. Mrs. Ann L. Foster. 
 
 Judge Joseph E. Hughes. Rev. Charles M. Oaklej'. Mrs. Harriet N. Oakley. 
 
 Rev. James P. Hughes. Mrs. Kmily W. Ilnglies. Mrs, :\lary B. Fletcher. 
 
 Mrs. Kniina M. Rohorts. Rev. Jacob A'. Hughes. .Mr^,. i;ii/:ilirlh .AI. Hughes 
 
 THE JAIVIES K. HUGHES GROUP. 
 
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 in the Cold Spring School House, one mile east of his residence, or 
 in the Cape School House, two miles south of it. He thus helped 
 to give all the young people there a sound and thoroughly practical 
 education ; while as he had the Bible daily read in his schools, and 
 often opened and closed them with prayer, and exhorted his scholars 
 to lead pious, useful and happy lives, many good impressions were 
 made never to be forgotten. No one can measure the degree and 
 extent of his influence for good in this one department of his life 
 work. 
 
 More than forty years after, Mr. Francis F. Hughes, formerly of 
 Cape May, and a second cousin of my wife, and I, with our families, 
 were unknowingly and providentially thrown within ten miles of 
 each other, in Benton County, Iowa, We soon learned the fact 
 and visited each other. Mr, Hughes was now an industrious, 
 conscientious and popular business man, zealous in behalf of both 
 Sabbath Schools and temperance, and a devoted and consistent Chris- 
 tian worker in the M. E. Church. We had not seen each other since 
 we were boys attending my father's school together. So soon as we 
 met and spoke of our boyhood days he stated that my father gave 
 him all the schooling he ever had. And many others have borne 
 the same testimony ; while others have told me that his brief and 
 pointed pious addresses, with his plain illustrations, had been 
 impressed upon them for life. 
 
 Although a moral, steady and industrious young man, a farmer 
 and school teacher combined, my father was not a professor of 
 religion when he married Eliza Eldredge. She was already a 
 member of the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, and a devotedly 
 pious young woman, and, my father added to me, the prettiest and 
 most modest young woman in the county. On the very evening of 
 their marriage, he said, she erected the family altar and led in prayer 
 The fire started on that altar that night has never gone out. It will 
 be kept burning, I trust, to the latest generation. 
 
 After a little, my father became deeply convinced of his sins ; 
 and so burdened was he on account of them, that he told me as he 
 was ploughing in his front field, at every end of his furrow he had 
 to leave his plough and enter the little thicket there, and on his 
 knees humbly and earnestly pray that God would have mercy on him, 
 until the Lord heard his prayer and granted him pardon and peace. 
 
He then made a profession of religion, uniting with the Presbyterian 
 Church on May 19, 1 815, a httle over four months after that wedding 
 night of united family prayer. Four years after this event, or on June 
 8, 1 8 19, when he was about twenty- eight years of age, he was elected 
 and ordained a Ruling Elder in the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, 
 and he continued in that office there for forty-six years until his 
 death. He organized the Cold Spring Sabbath School, which was 
 the first Sabbath School in Cape May County, and was its first and 
 only Superintendent for over thirty years. His influence here for 
 good in every direction was marked, controlling and enduring. 
 
 My father and mother together moulded too, under God, by their 
 instructions, discipline, example and prayers, a large family of 
 twelve children for good in their day and generation. They saw 
 eye to eye, or were united, in their family training — early dedicating 
 us to God in baptism ; praying with us and for us ; enjoining 
 obedience on us at home; instructing us in the Bible ; requiring of 
 each of the children the accurate memorizing and recitation of the 
 Shorter Catechism ; taking us regularly to Church, to the Sabbath 
 School, and to the prayer meeting; and requiring of us good 
 behaviour in all such places, as well as at home. 
 
 My parents, whilst charitable and courteous towards other 
 evaneelical churches, never wavered in their attachment to the 
 doctrines, polity and worship of the Presbyterian Church ; and they 
 never encouraged, or permitted, their children to neglect their own 
 church to run loosely anywhere and everywhere else. Hence as 
 a family they remained standard in their own Presbyterian Church. 
 
 I knew my mother had her closet to which she daily resorted to 
 commune with God, and to obtain grace for every hour of duty and 
 trial. She said to me that her Bible and her closet, leading her to 
 her Saviour, were the sources of her strength and comfort. I can 
 remember, too, that the women in the church of that day kept up 
 their own weekly prayer meetings from house to house ; and my 
 mother, with all her family cares, would attend them, even if she 
 went a mile or two on foot, and then would bear her part in them. 
 Under these wholesome influences and surroundings all the children, 
 but one who died by accident in falling into a frying pan of hot fat 
 when two years old, grew up to full manhood and womanhood, 
 healthy, industrious, sound in the faith, professors of religion, and 
 
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 prepared in both body and soul for their varied responsibilities in 
 life. Three of their sons became not only teachers, but Presbyterian 
 ministers, and one of them became not only a useful and honored 
 teacher for many years in his native county, but also a faithful Rul'nj 
 Elder, first in the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, and afterwards 
 in the Cape Island Presbyterian Church ; while three of their 
 daughters married Presbyterian ministers — all seven of whom are 
 still living and useful in the Master's Vineyard. Another daughter 
 married one of the Trustees of the Presbyterian Church, an intelli- 
 gent, pious and useful man — a son of one of the aged Ruling Elders 
 of the church. Both this wife and her husband are now dead, but 
 they have left a large family of sons and daughters, all followers of 
 Christ, and active and useful in their several places and relations, 
 and so they do honor to the memory of their parents. 
 
 I write all this to emphasize God's covenant with all his people, 
 and to show his faithfulness in fulfilling all his covenant promises 
 in exact proportion to our meeting all our covenant obligations. It 
 is but one well known example, out of others that might be 
 mentioned, given to encourage and stimulate afresh all our pious 
 households to renewed mutual endeavors to love and serve the Lord. 
 
 I esteemed my father highly. I thought him energetic and 
 diligent in all his business, kind and considerate to the poor, 
 conscientious and devoted in the discharge of all his religious duties 
 in the family, the Sabbath School and the church, and loving, 
 helpful, and strict in the training of his children. I loved my mother 
 and confided in her very much, although I was often self-willed 
 and disobedient. She was always thoughtful of her children, 
 watchful over them, laborious in her provisions for their comfort, 
 and faithful in her instruction and discipline of them. 
 
 My beloved parents, amidst usual human infirmities and struggles, 
 accomplished well by the grace of God their work ; and now their 
 bodies lie quietly sleeping in the Cold Spring Presbyterian cemetery, 
 but their souls are enjoying in heaven the promised reward — while 
 their children rise up and call them blessed. My father died when 
 nearly seventy-four years old, and my mother died a little over 
 seventy-nine years of age. My brother-in-law, Downs E. Foster, 
 attended on my father during his last sickness, in the absence of 
 all his children, and when he asked him what was his dying 
 
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 message to his absent children, he rcph'ed, " Tell them all I die 
 with, a good hope in the Lord Jesus Christ." 
 
 On my father's tombstone is the following inscription — James R. 
 Hughes, born July 6, 1791, died March 13, 1865, aged sevent3^-three 
 years, eight months and seven days. A Ruling Elder in the Cold 
 Spring Presbyterian Church nearly forty-six years, and for over 
 thirty years the successful Superintendent of the first Sabbath 
 School. "Well done good and faithful servant, enter thou into 
 the joy of thy Lord." 
 
 On my mother's tombstone are the words " Mrs. Eliza E. Hughes, 
 wife of James R. Hughes, was born December 15, 1796, died 
 January 6, 1876, aged seventy-nine years, and twenty-two days. I 
 shall behold my Saviour's face." 
 
 I record here the obituary notice published of her in the Cape 
 May, N. J., Ocean Wave, January 22, 1876. 
 
 " Died January 6, 1876, at Unionville, Center county, Pa., at the 
 residence of her son, Rev. J. V. R. Hughes, Mrs. Eliza E. Hughes^ 
 aged seventy-nine years and twenty-two days. She was the widow 
 of the late James R. Hughes, for many years a Ruling Elder in the 
 Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, Cape May county, N. J. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Hughes were both descendants of the early settlers of the 
 Lower township, of Cape May. They had a family of children 
 which they endeavored to bring up in the admonition of the Lord, 
 and their labors were not in vain. Three sons are now ministers 
 in the Presbyterian Church ; one son a Ruling Elder in the Cold 
 Spring Church ; three daughters are married to Presbyterian 
 clergymen, one is the wife of Rev. John Roberts, missionary in 
 China. It is but seldom such a record is made of any one family. 
 Mrs. Hughes was over sixty years a member of the church. She 
 had her trials but they were sanctified to her. She was ever 
 hopeful and cheerful, and when the Master called her to be with 
 Him, she was ready and waiting for Him. To her son, who had 
 just returned from a funeral, she said : " Would it be wrong to pray 
 that I might be the next to go?" And she was the next in his 
 congregation. She took her breakfast with the family the day 
 previous to that of her death ; and on the sixth inst, while lying in 
 her bed, feeling no pain, she fell asleep in Jesus. It was her 
 request, made some time before her death, that her remains should 
 
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 be taken to Cold Spring, and buried in the old graveyard where lie 
 the remains of so many of her kindred and friends, and that her 
 funeral sermon should be preached in the Cold Spring Church — 
 which was accordingly done on January 9. The funeral sermon 
 was preached by her old pastor. Rev. Moses Williamson, " Blessed 
 are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth; yea, saith the 
 Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do 
 follow them." 
 
 I. Jeremiah Eldredge Hughes. As to the children's history, 
 I observe Jeremiah I^ldredge Hughes was born at Cape May, N. 
 J., December 10, 181 5, and died at Gainesville, Texas, June 23, 
 1884, aged sixty-eight years, six months and thirteen days. He 
 was married to Sophronia Sparks, at Gainesville, Texas, March 
 29, 1857. She was born in Nilson county, Tennessee, July 31, 
 1834, and died at Gainesville, Texas, April 25, 1880, aged forty-five 
 years, eight months and twenty-four days. 
 
 Jeremiah E., when about sixteen years of age, was placed by his 
 father in the hardware store of Messrs. Walton and Hill, Philadel- 
 phia, and he remained with them many years. Afterwards he 
 engaged with a similar firm in New Orleans, Louisiana; and when 
 Calitornia opened, he gathered up his resources, bought a stock of 
 goods, went to California, started a store in the mines, and continued 
 there for several years. After a time he ceased writing home to 
 his parents. They became anxious about him. and wrote several 
 letters to ascertain something about him ; but all the information 
 they could get was from his post master, who wrote saying the last 
 he knew of him was his getting some money changed, and starting 
 for the North. For fifteen long years nothing was heard from him, 
 and all the family, except mother, believed he was dead. Father 
 died without knowing anything to the contrary ; but mother seemed 
 always to retain a hope and belief that she would live to see him 
 yet again. After father's death in 1865, Jeremiah wrote him a letter 
 during the year following, saying he was alive and living in Texas. 
 He had married, other cares occupied his time, the Civil War came 
 on, and he wholly neglected all correspondence until its close. He 
 afterwards came North with his family and spent a year with his 
 brothers at Cape May, N. J., and at Bellefonte and Unionville, Pa., 
 
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 saw and cheered his aged mother, and then returned to his home 
 in Gainesville, Texas, where he resided until his death — his wife 
 having preceded him to the '' better country" several years before. 
 
 He often wrote me that it was his desire, prayer and effort that 
 he might so live and act here, as that he might be prepared here- 
 after for the higher and better sphere in the heavenly mansions. 
 His daughter, Adelaide, writes me under date of Gainesville, Texas, 
 February 9, 1890, the following additional facts in his history — "My 
 father came to Gainesville in 185$, and was about the second or 
 third County Clerk for the county, and was made Post Master. He 
 married in 1857, and built the first brick house in Gainesville. 
 After the war he removed to New Orleans, La., and was with 
 Foster and Son, a large hardware firm for seven years, when we 
 went to Cape May City, N. J., and Bellefonte, Pa., and staid a year. 
 Then we came back to Gainesville, in 1875, and he engaged in the 
 dry goods business for three years." 
 
 Jeremiah E. and Sophronia S. Hughes had seven children. 
 
 George Eldredge was born August i, 1858, and died October 
 12, 1859. 
 
 A son was born October 20, i860, and only lived a few hours. 
 
 A daughter was born October 22, 1863, and only lived a little while. 
 
 Adelaide was born November 15, 1864. 
 
 James R. was born January 29, 1867, 
 
 Clara was born November 9, 1869, 
 
 Jessie was born January 26, 1872, and died July 27, 1872, aged 
 six months and one day. 
 
 Adelaide, the oldest child living, received the best education her 
 father could afford her in the higher schools, both at New Orleans,. 
 La., and at Gainesville, Texas, thus fitting her to be a school teacher. 
 She started to a select school in New Orleans when she was only- 
 four years. She was diligent and successful in her studies, and 
 was rapidly promoted until she was fourteen years of age. When 
 fifteen years old she took charge of a select school in Gainesville, 
 Texas, and then at the age of eighteen she was called to be the 
 second assistant in Professor Potter's Academy at that place. Her 
 father wrote to me of her, when she was seven years of age, thus — 
 under date of New Orleans, La., April 14, 1872, "Adelaide is now 
 at Sunday School, where she goes every Sunday morning, when 
 
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 the weather permits, Rev. Dr. Markham's, a Presbyterian. She 
 goes to a daily school and learns fast in Geography, Arithmetic, 
 etc., and is a smart child." And then again under date of Gaines- 
 ville, Cooke county, Texas, October 2, 1880, he writes, "Adelaide 
 is teaching school, second grade, second assistant in Professor 
 Potter's Academy at this place. She is a natural teacher. Professor 
 Potter has taught all his life, from the time he graduated, and he 
 says he never met in any school room any female teacher equal her 
 as a disciplinarian. He is much pleased with her as a teacher. I 
 have not been able to have her put through college for the first 
 degree. She passed her examination in the second grade with 
 great credit to herself and me. She is a student. I am proud of 
 her." Adelaide continued to teach for four years until she was 
 married by the Rev. J. M. Keeton, in the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Church, at Gainesville, on September 15, 1887, to Mr. Cyrus 
 Ritchey. He was born in Texas, November/, 1862. His parents' 
 names were Samuel and Martha McCleary. Mr. Ritchie is engaged 
 in the insurance business, and both he and his wife are active and 
 consistent members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Under date of Gainesville, Texas, November 25, 1889, Adelaide 
 wrote me — " I have a very sweet little girl fourteen months old, 
 that we have named Annie Hughes Ritchey. She was born on 
 September 6, 1888, and she is the idol of my grandfather, who is still 
 with me and enjoys tolerably good health." His full name is Jesse 
 Handcock Sparks, and he will be eighty years old in March, 1890. 
 
 James R. attended school for some time, and then engaged on a 
 ranch in herding cattle. After his father's death he went to 
 Wichita, Kansas, and acted as a clerk in a store there for a while. 
 He is now employed in Denver, Colorado, 
 
 Clara attended school under her sister's care and tuition. She 
 had talents, especially for music, and was a good student. She 
 was afterwards sent to Cincinnati, Ohio, to receive a musical educa- 
 tion, and is now teaching music at Belcherville, a little town forty 
 miles from Gainesville. 
 
 2. Mrs. Ann Lawrence Foster. I feel like making special men- 
 tion here of the Foster family, because the children and descendants 
 of my oldest sister, because of their larger numbers, and because 
 
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 of the excellentcharacter of the Foster ancestry. My oldest sister, 
 Ann Lawrence Hughes, was born November 9, 18 17, was married 
 to Downs E. Foster, by Rev. Moses Williamson, December 19, 
 1838, and died at the Cape May Light House, February 16, 1865, 
 aged forty-seven years, three months and seven days. On her 
 tombstone, in the Cold Spring cemetery, are engraved the tender 
 words — " Thy loss regretted, and thy memory loved." The Cape 
 May paper publishing her death, added, 
 
 '• So frtdes a Summer cloud away, 
 
 So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, 
 So gently shuts the eye of day, 
 
 So dies a wave along the shore," 
 
 Ann L, seemed piously inclined from her early childhood. After 
 attending her father's school several years at Cape May, her parents 
 were encouraged to send her, when only ten years old, to an excel- 
 lent private school in Philadelphia. While there she attended some 
 interesting revival meetings conducted by Rev. William Ramsey,, 
 pastor of the Mariner's Church, in that city. Under them she was 
 deeply impressed, and hopefully converted unto God. When she 
 returned home, only eleven years of age, she united with the Cold 
 Spring Presbyterian Church, October 29, 1828, and from that time 
 forward she ever led a consistent and devoted Christian life. I well 
 remember the pious influence she exerted upon my mind, when I 
 was a little boy, after she returned from her school in Philadelphia 
 and sung one Sabbath evening some of the beautiful songs that she 
 had learned at those revival meetings there. The following 
 thoughts in one of them especially so impressed me that I shall 
 never forget them. " Oh, there will be mourning, mourning, at the 
 Judgment Seat of Christ. Ministers and people there must part, 
 must part, to meet no more. Parents and children, brothers and 
 sisters, there must part, must part, to meet no more." Then she 
 sung, " Oh, it will be joyful, joyful, at the Judgment Seat of Christ. 
 Ministers and people there will meet, will meet, to part no more. 
 Parents and children, brothers and sisters, there will meet, will 
 meet, to part no more." She was always and everywhere the same 
 cheerful, patient and faithful follower of Jesus, trying to do for Him 
 what she could. All her children loved her, looked up to her, and 
 
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 were moulded in their principles and practices for good by her. 
 And " the heart of her husband did safely trust in her." 
 
 Downs E Foster, her husband, was born at Fishing Creek, Cape 
 May county, N. J., October 20th, 1807. He died at the residence 
 of his son-in-law, James W. Eldredge, of West Cape May, October 
 20th, 1886, aged exactly seventy-nine years. He had been for some 
 time simply waiting for the Master's call, and then he passed quietly 
 away on the anniversary day of his birth. His parents were Reuben 
 and Nancy E. Foster. His father was born September 14, 1780, 
 and died June 24, 1870, aged eighty-nine years, nine months and 
 ten days — after having been an esteemed and faithful Ruling Elder 
 in the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church for nearly forty-four years. 
 Downs, with his older brother Robert, who lived several years 
 longer, were raised on the old farm at Fishing Creek ; but Downs 
 learned the carpenter trade also and became a first-class workman. 
 He was a tall man, well proportioned, had a large brain and possessed 
 decided mechanical genius. He had enjoyed only a common school 
 education, but having a strong and enquiring mind he employed 
 his leisure hours in miscellaneous reading and study of valuable 
 books, so that he amassed a large fund of information on science, 
 history, mechanics, philosophy and religion — which not only 
 enriched his own mind, but made him one of the most agreeable 
 and instructive companions in South Jersey to all with whom he 
 associated. He afterwards sought and obtained of the United 
 States government the position of keeper and manager of the Cape 
 May Light House — a position of great responsibility. This he 
 retained for many years, giving full satisfaction of his adaptability 
 and efficiency until his advanced age required his retirement. 
 Here too, he delighted to entertain the multitudes of strangers who 
 annually visited this attractive edifice, with explanations of the 
 philosophy, peculiarities an(i utility of these French revolving lights 
 by which the Cape May Light House is distinguished from all other 
 light houses along the United States coasts, and by which the tempest- 
 tossed mariners may be guarded against, and saved from, the 
 imminent danger of this immediate locality. He was a member 
 and a Trustee also, of the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, and a 
 man of positive character in both principle and practice. His 
 funeral was largely attended on Friday, October 22, 1886, by his 
 
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 numerous relatives and friends. His three sons, Reuben, Samuel 
 and Douglass, and their uncle, Joseph E. Hughes, acted as pall- 
 bearers; and on his tombstone are the impressive words — " At 
 Rest." I will only add the following brief extracts from the funeral 
 sermon preached by his pastor, the Rev. J. L. Landis.on the occasion, 
 as corroborative of the character of the deceased, and as illustrative 
 of the fulfillment of God's covenant promises in pious households — 
 to be held by them in perpetual remembrance. " This aged father's 
 faith was strong and his influence always good, and, when health 
 and circumstances warranted, he was a regular attendant upon all 
 the means of grace in the Lord's house. He loved his church and 
 was always clear in his Christian hope and interested in religious 
 conversation. Of such is ihe kingdom of heaven. Of their loss to 
 the church on earth God's people here cannot know in time, but 
 the influence and value of their lives, their prayers, and their counsels- 
 will only be realized in eternity." "To you, sons and daughters, 
 for whom he lived, it must have been very gratifying and consoling 
 to him to hav^e lived long enough to have seen you all settled in 
 your own homes. This is the just ambition and love of every 
 parent, and also to enjoy everything that was interesting and good 
 in your lives, and in the progress and growth of your families. 
 Best of all, he lived long enough to see you all gathered into 
 spiritual fellowship with him, to rejoice with him in a common 
 hope of heaven, and in the prospect of a blessed reunion there. He 
 lived long enough to know what the sweet responses would be to 
 his anxious care and love for you all ; long enough, to give you 
 the opportunity to repay in some slight degree at least all the 
 kindness and w'atchful care and tenderness he ever had for you a\K 
 And precious to day are these memories to you, of dut}^ done and 
 affectionate interest always manifested to your dear father, now 
 that all of human help and comfort is no longer of any avail May 
 this filial affection shown in the presence of your children, to your 
 father, have impressed itself deeply upon their minds, and you in 
 turn share the same beautiful and loving filial devotion. And 
 better than all, may their hearts be turned to the Lord, and you in 
 each family have repeated the history of your father's family ; be 
 unbroken, and united in grace as well as in blood." 
 
 The children of Ann L. and Downs E. Foster were — Reuben, 
 
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 Jane Ann, Samuel Lawrence, Douglass, James Hewitt, Rhoda 
 Forest, Ellen Edmunds, Eliza Eldredgeand Mary Carll, nine in all. 
 
 1st. Reuben Foster was born at Cape May, New Jersey, October 
 28, 1839. He received a common county school education, left 
 home in his eighteenth year and went to southwestern Iowa, in 
 connection with his uncle, Rev. Daniel L. Hughes and family, where 
 he spent four years engaged in agricultural pursuits. At the 
 breaking out of the late Civil War in 1861, he returned to his home 
 at Cape May, N. J., from which place he enlisted as private in 
 Company F, of the Twenty-fifth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers. 
 He was promoted to a lieutenancy for meritorious services in the 
 battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862. After his 
 return from the army he attended Crittenden's Commercial Business 
 College in Philadelphia, for one term of six months, preparatory 
 to going into the Transportation business in 1867. He found 
 an excellent Christian companion for life, on November 6, 1866, 
 he was married to Sarah Louisa Hand, daughter of Parsons Hand 
 and Sarah Carll Miller, his wife, all of Cape May, New Jersey. 
 His wife, Sarah L. Hand, was born June 8, 1843. He afterwards 
 located at Baltimore, Maryland, engaging in an important Southern 
 Line of Steamship and Railroad Transportation between Baltimore 
 and Richmond, Va., in which business he is still engaged, his 
 address being, 222 Light Wharf street, Balimore, Md. In all 
 his business transactions both in the West and East he has always 
 proved himself entirely reliable, acceptable, efficient and successful. 
 Mr. Foster left Cape May a poor boy, and has by steady persever- 
 ance and business sagacity amassed quite a fortune. 
 
 The children of Reuben and Sarah L. Foster, are Enoch Edmunds 
 Foster, born September 2, 1867. 
 
 Arthur Douglass Foster, born November 8, 1872. 
 
 Reuben Carll Foster, born July 10, 1875. 
 
 Gilbert Foster, born October 29th, 1877, died June 30, 1878. 
 
 Frederick Foster, born October 5th, 1 879. They are all fine sons. 
 
 2d. Jane Ann Foster, the second child of Ann L. and Downs E. 
 Foster, was born at Cold Spring, N. J., May 8, 1841 ; educated at 
 the Cold Spring Academy, under the care of Rev. Moses Williamson, 
 and married by him at the Cold Spring parsonage to Aaron D. E. 
 Crowell, September 13, 1859. Aaron D. E. Crowell, her husband, 
 
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 was the son of Captain Page and Tryphena Crowell, and was born 
 in Philadelphia, August 20, 1834. His father, the son of Aaron 
 and Sarah P. Crowell, was born at Cape May, June 6,1806, followed 
 the sea for forty years, and died at his son's residence near the 
 Cape May Light House, August 23, 1886, aged eighty years, two 
 months and seventeen days. His mother, the daughter of Downs 
 and Elizabeth Edmunds, was born at Fishing Creek, N. J., February 
 20, 1809, and died November 29, 1834, aged twenty -five years, nine 
 months and nine days. After her death, their son, Aaron D. E. was 
 taken and raised by his grand parents. Downs and Elizabeth 
 Edmunds, at Fishing Creek, N. J. He lived with them and took 
 care of them in their old age. For the last twelve or fifteen years 
 he has been occupied in the steamboat business at Cape May as 
 Messenger and Baggage Master. The children of Jane Ann and 
 Aaron D. E. Crowell, are — 
 
 (i). Thomas S. Crowell, born at Fishing Creek, N. J., June 8, 
 i860. His education was received at the Cape Academy, N. J. ; 
 his occupation is that of chief engineer. His present residence is 
 Philadelphia. He was married in the Spruce Street Baptist Church, 
 Philadelphia, to Emma M. Herring, of that city, by their pastor, 
 December 9, 1878. His wife was born June 10, i860. They have 
 one child, Willie H. Crowell, born August 23, 1880. 
 
 (2). Edward M. Crowell, born at Fishing Creek, N. J., March 25, 
 1862. Received his education at Cape Academy. His occupation, 
 a Gold Beater at West Cape May Factory. His place of residence 
 West Cape May, N. J, He was married June 9, 1883, to Orilla 
 Whilden, of Cape May Court House, at the Methodist Parsonage, 
 by Rev. Mr. Hancock. His wife was born November, 1864. They 
 have one child, Anna Foster, born December 18, 1884. 
 
 (3). Tryphena P. Crowell, born at Fishing Creek, N. J., April 
 15, 1864. Educated at the Cape Academy, and married at her 
 home August 30, 1882, by Rev. Alonzo P. Johnson, to William G. 
 Essen, baker and confectioner, at Cape May City. They have had 
 two sons, Willis G. Essen and John R. Essen. The latter son died 
 August, 1885. 
 
 (4). Anna Foster Crowell, named after her grandmother, Ann 
 Foster, was born at the Cape, January 5, 1866. She was educated 
 at the Cape Academy, and married February 9, 1886, at the Cape 
 
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 May City Parsonage, by Rev. C. A. Brewster, to George Chester 
 Germon. His occupation was that of expressman and telegraph 
 operator. His residence was at Philadelphia, until near the close 
 of his last sickness ; but he was formerly from Bridgeton, N, J. 
 Two children were born to them. Ralph C. and Edward M. 
 Germon. Ralph C. Germon, the oldest son, died June 14, 1889. 
 The father, George Chester Germon, was born at Bridgeton, N. J., 
 April 5, 1 86 1, and died at Cape May, of La Grippe, January 9, 
 1890, aged twenty-eight years, nine months and four days. He 
 was buried in the Cold Spring cemetery. Anna F., the wife and 
 mother bears up bravely with her loss of a good husband and father, 
 as this is a double bereavement ; but God is her support. The 
 remaining son is two-and-a-half years old, and a bright little fellow. 
 
 (5). Sarah E. Crowell, was born at Cape District, May 8, 1867. 
 She was educated at the Lower Cape Academy, and was married 
 September, 1890, to John Snyder, of Fishing Creek, N. J., by Rev. 
 J. L.. Landis. 
 
 (6). Clarence S. Crowell, was born at the Cape May Light 
 House, February 5, 1873, and died July 23, 1873, aged five months, 
 two weeks and four days. 
 
 (7). Comfort F. Crowell, was born in Lower Cape May, March 24, 
 1875, and died September 2, 1875, aged five months and eight days. 
 
 (8 and 9). Ella Foster Crowell and Mary Ada Crowell, twin 
 daughters, were born May 19, 1876, and died June 20, 1876, aged 
 four weeks and one day. 
 
 (10). A. D. E. Crowell was born January 15, 1881, and died 
 August 20, 1 88 1, aged seven months and five days. 
 
 3d. Samuel Lawrence Foster, the third child of Ann L. and 
 Downs E. Foster and named after the Rev. Samuel Lawrence, was 
 born February 22, 1843, ^t Cold Spring, Cape May County, N. J. 
 He attended the District School during the Winter months from 
 about 1849 to i860. As to his occupation, he has been in the 
 roofing business for the past twenty-five years in Washington City, 
 
 D. C ; Philadelphia ; Atlanta, Ga., and Norfolk, Va. His present 
 address is Norfolk, Va. He was married August 31, i87i,byRev. 
 
 E. B. Bruen, in Philadelphia, to Marion Upham, who was born in 
 Philadelphia, April 8, 1848 ; daughter of Samuel Curtis Upham, 
 who was born February 2, 18 19, in Montpelier, Vermont, and Ann 
 
Eliza Bancroft, his wife, who was born at Fishing Creek, Cape May 
 County, N. J., April 22, 1829. 
 
 The children of Samuel L. and Marion U. Foster, are six, viz: 
 
 Curtis Upham Foster, born in Philadelphia, May 4, 1874. 
 
 Lilian Foster, born in Philadelphia, July 25th, 1876. 
 
 Howard Lawrence Foster, born in Philadelphia, July 14, 1879. 
 
 Marion Upham Foster, born in Philadelphia, May 19, 1882. 
 
 Herbert Warren Foster, born in Philadelphia, September 2, 1885, 
 and died in Braidentown, Florida, January 31, 1886. 
 
 Wilmer Strong Foster, born in Philadelphia, November 30, 1887. 
 
 4th. Douglass Foster, the tourth child of Ann L. and Downs E. 
 Foster, was born November 28, 1844, at Cape May, N. J., and 
 received his education there. He is engaged with the York River 
 Steamboat Company, Baltimore, Md. His address is 2303 North 
 Charles street, Baltimore. He was married in Philadelphia, Pa., 
 November 11, 1875, by Rev. Dr. Hensen, to Mary E. Crowell, of 
 Philadelphia. Her parents are Somers Crowell and Ellen Leslie 
 Crowell. The children of Douglass and Mary E. Crowell, are — 
 
 Leslie D. Foster, born August 6, 1877, and Nellie Foster, born 
 August 27, 1880. 
 
 5th. James Hewitt Foster, the fifth child of Ann L. and Downs E. 
 Foster, was born January 8, 1847, and died June 10, 1852, aged 
 five years, five months and two days. 
 
 6th. Rhoda Forest Foster, the sixth child of Ann L. and Downs 
 E. Foster, was born July 12, 1848. She received her education at 
 the Public School Academy in West Cape May, with one term 
 extra in a select school taught by her uncle, Rev. James P. Hughes, 
 at Cape May City. Her mother died when she was sixteen years 
 old, and she was then called to take her place in overseeing household 
 affairs and in attending to her father's family. She was married 
 October 13, 1868, to William Leonard Cummings, of Fishing 
 Creek, N. J., at the Cold Spring Parsonage, by Rev. Moses 
 Williamson. Her husband was born June 11, 1845. The names 
 of his parents were Leonard and Lydia Cummings. His business 
 is that of a house carpenter , he is a member of the Cold Spring 
 Presbyterian Church, and has been connected with its choir for 
 twenty years. The children of Rhoda Forest and William L. 
 Cummings are : 
 
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 (i). Harry Edmunds Cummings, born May ii, 1870, and died 
 March 3, 1875, aged four years, nine months and twenty-two days. 
 
 (2). George Ogden Cummings, born January 25, 1873. He is 
 now eighteen years old, is a member of the Cold Spring Presby- 
 terian Church, attends to his religious duties, and bids fair to be a 
 good and useful man. 
 
 (3). Emma Eldredge Cummings, born February 13, 1875, and 
 died of scarlet fever, September 14, 1887, aged twelve years, seven 
 months and one day. She was a member of the Cold Spring 
 Presbyterian Church, and a very promising child. 
 
 (4). Ralph Lee Cummings, born December 9, 1877, Ralph is 
 now thirteen years of age — is a fine boy — has many friends — is 
 lively and active, with a jolly disposition — can ride any kind of a 
 horse or bicycle, and if he lives will make a solid man. 
 
 7th. Eliza Eldredge Foster, the seventh child of Ann L. and 
 Downs E. Foster, was born August 22, 1850, and died June 4, 
 1 85 1, aged nine months and thirteen days. 
 
 8th. Ellen Edmunds Foster, the eighth child of Ann L. and 
 Downs E. Foster, was born January 7, 1853. She attended school 
 at the Cape Academy from childhood until she was about sixteen 
 years of age. She was married to Lafayette Miller Hall, on 
 November 12, 1876, by the Rev. Thomas S. Dewing, at the Cold 
 Spring Parsonage. Her husband was born June 19, 1849. His father, 
 Joseph Hall, was born February 19, 1807, and is still living and 
 active at eighty-four years of age. His mother, Jane E. Hall, was 
 born December 24, 1809, and died March 21, 1887, aged seventy- 
 seven years, two months and twenty-seven days. Her remains lie 
 with her kindred m the Cold Spring cemetery. The occupation of 
 Mr. L. M. Hall is the real estate business at Cape May City. 
 
 The children of Ellen E. and Lafayette M. Hall are — Harriet 
 Shaw Hall, born February 3, 1878; Mary Eldredge Hall, born 
 May 3, 1880, and William Cummings Hall, born January 14, i883_ 
 
 9th. Mary Carll Foster, the ninth and last child of Ann L. and 
 Downs E. Foster, was born May 3, 1855. She was sent to school 
 to the Cape Academy until she was eighteen years old. Her 
 husband attended the same school. She was married in 1874, by 
 the Rev. Thomas S. Dewing, her pastor, to James W. Eldredge, 
 son of Daniel C. Eldredge, contractor and builder. Her husband 
 
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 was born November 24, 1853, and is by trade a carpenter, but for 
 the past thirteen years he has been in the Life Saving Service at 
 Cape May Point, N. J. 
 
 The children of Mary C.and James W. Eldredgeare — (i). Samuel 
 Foster Eldredge, born April n, 1873. (2). Downs Foster 
 Eldredge, born August 31, 1876, and died August r, 1878, aged 
 one year, eleven months and one day. (3). George Bolton Eldredge, 
 born April 26, 1878. 
 
 The total number of Mrs. Ann L. Foster's children, grand children 
 and great-grand children are forty eight — of whom thirty -five are 
 now living, 
 
 3. Daniel Lawrence HuGHESr the third child of James R. and 
 Eliza E. Hughes, will be sketched elsewhere. 
 
 4. Judge Joseph Eldrectge Hughes was the fourth child af 
 James R. and Eliza E. Hughes, and was born at the old homestead 
 in Cape May County, July 31, 182 1. In his thirteenth year, or on' 
 May I, 1834, he united with the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church 
 on the profession of his faith. He grew to manhood on his father's 
 farm, and enjoyed such educational privileges as the times and 
 circumstances afforded, especially those of his father and pastor. 
 He was married November 28, 1842, to Experience Somers, 
 daughter of Captain Richard Somers, of Atlantic County, N. J. 
 Besides cultivating his own small farm he was a successful school 
 teacher for fifteen years in several districts adjoining bis home. 
 And many of the youth of Cape May County are indebted to him 
 for the sound instruction and moral principles that he imparted to 
 them for their subsequent success in life. He succeeded his father 
 as Superintendent of the Sunday School at Cold Spring, which he 
 retained tor many years. He was also elected a Ruling Elder in 
 the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, and was ordained and instai'ed 
 there as such on the first Sabbath in May, 1855. This office he 
 faithfully filled until he removed by certificate to the Cape May 
 City church, January 13, 1877, and is an acting Ruling Elder now 
 in that church. In public life, because of his integrity of character 
 and general knowledge of public affairs, his fellow citizens were led 
 to bestow upon him many offices of trust and honor. Before he 
 went to reside at Cape May City, he served as Clerk of Township 
 
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 Committee, Superintendent of Public Schools and ex-officio member 
 of County Examining Board under the old law; Clerk of the board 
 of Chosen Freeholders and member of the same. With Dr. C. F. 
 Learning he served as a building committee for the erection of the 
 Clerk's and Surrogate's offices, at the Court House, in 1865. The 
 substantial character of these offices speak well for the faithful 
 ■manner in which the committee did their duty. Mr. Hughes also 
 got the appointment of Commissioner of Deeds, 
 
 In 1872 he removed to Cape May City, and soon after was 
 elected to its Council. While in that body he was instrumental in 
 ■establishing the first city water works, being associated with R. B, 
 Swain, Esq., for that purpose. In 1874, his neighbors, without 
 regard to party, asked that Mr. Hughes be appointed the Lay 
 Judge of the county. The Governor of the State of New Jersey 
 granted the petition, and commissioned him to wear the judicial 
 ermine for five years, and then re-appointed him for another term, 
 but he resigned after serving three years of it to assume the duties 
 of Post Master of Cape May City, having been appointed thereto 
 by President Arthur. The Judge made an excellent officer, and 
 was retired with an honorable discharge at the change of Adminis- 
 tration. In 1886 his fellow citizens made the Judge an Alder- 
 man, an office he held until his resignation. He has also 
 rented and managed several of the large hotels at Cape May City, 
 for boarders, during successive summer seasons. He has thus 
 proved himself to bean honorable, highly respected and useful citizen. 
 
 Experience Somers Hughes, the wife of Joseph E. Hughes, was 
 born at Somers Point, Atlantic County, N. J., October 23, 1824, 
 and died suddenly of apoplexy and heart disease, at Cape May City, 
 on Thursday night, January 28, 1886, aged sixty -one years, three 
 months and five days. We add the following facts from her obituary 
 published in a Cape May City paper. 
 
 " When about sixteen years of age she was sent to the Cold 
 Spring Academy, this county, then under the care of Rev. Moses 
 Williamson, who was also pastor of the Presbyterian Church of that 
 place. Here she remained for two years. In her seventeeth year 
 she made, a profession of her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and 
 -united with the Presbyterian Church at Cold Spring. In her 
 eighteenth year she was married to Mr. Hughes, and during a long 
 
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 married life of forty-four years, she was a true and faithful wife and 
 mother, as well as a consistent Christian. The beauty of her youth 
 was impressed upon her countenance even in death. Although 
 suddenly called to leave, she was not unprepared for the sujnmons. 
 For her to depart and to be with Christ is far better. Her worthy 
 and stricken husband, and her beloved children and friends mourn 
 as those who have hope. May we each be ready also when the 
 Master calleth for us — ^whether it be at midnight, at cock-crowing 
 or in the morning — that we may enter with him into the joy of our 
 Lord." D. L. H. 
 
 The children of Joseph E. and Experience S. Hughes were three 
 — William Somers, Laura S. and Joseph Henry. 
 
 William Somers, the first child, was born July 29, 1843, and died 
 May 5, 1845, aged one year, nine months and six days. 
 
 Laura S., the second child, was born February 2, 1848, was 
 educated in the home schools, united with the. Cold Spring Presby- 
 terian Church, and was married February, 1867, to Jonathan 
 Hoffman, by Rev. Moses Williamson. They had three children. 
 The first, a little daughter, died when a few days old, nameless. 
 Their two boys are Edward H. and Howard S. Edward Hoffman, 
 the oldest son, besides his education in the common schools at 
 Cape May, and his knowledge of farming, has gone to Trenton 
 College, N. J., to prepare himself for something still more useful, 
 Howard S., the next son, has taken up the study of surveying, and 
 will remain at home assisting his father on his farm. They are 
 young men of good character and promise, members of the Cold 
 Spring Presbyterian Church, and will no doubt prove useful men 
 and good soldiers of the cross. Their address is Cold Spring,. 
 Cape May county, N. J. 
 
 Joseph Henry, the third child of Joseph E. and Experience S. 
 Hughes, was born January 5, 1853. Besides his education at Cape 
 May, he attended for two years the Bridgeton Academy, N. J., and 
 also spent two years at Trenton College, N. J. He is a member of 
 the Presbyterian Church, and is engaged in merchandise and the 
 real estate business at Cape May City. He \\'as married February 
 28, 1878, by Rev. Mr. Brittain, at Moorestown, N. J., to Emma T. 
 Bennett, daughter of Abram and Sarah C. Bennett, of Cape May 
 county. Mrs. Bennett was afterwards married to James Learning. 
 
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 They have two children, both daughters, viz. : Sallie K.Hughes, 
 aged twelve years, and Jennie W. Hughes aged five years. They 
 are fine little girls. 
 
 After the loss of his excellent first wife, ex-Judge Joseph E. 
 Hughes on September 14, 1886, married Mrs, Mary A. Farrow, a 
 worthy Christian lady, of Cape May City. They now occupy their 
 cottage on Bank street, highly esteemed by all who know them. 
 
 5. William Geddes Hughes was the fifth child of James R. 
 and Eliza E. Hughes, and was born June 13, 1823. He died 
 September 28, 1824, caused by falHng into a pan of hot fat, aged 
 one year, three months and fifteen days. 
 
 6. Harriet Newell Hughes, their sixth child, was born July 
 23, 1825, enjoyed educational privileges under her father and pastor, 
 joined the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, February 20, 1840, 
 in her fifteenth year, and was married to Rev. Charles M. Oakley, 
 July 24, 1844, at her father's house by her brother. Rev. Daniel L. 
 Hughes. Mrs. Oakley ever proved by h er industry, economy, piety, 
 consistency and fidelity a great help-mate to her pious- and devoted 
 husband in both his home and public work ; while at the same time 
 she was always considerate of the poor and needy, and was ready 
 with advice, hand and purse to help forward every benevolent and 
 missionary work of the church. She still lives, and is eminently 
 active and useful wherever she resides. 
 
 Rev. Charles M. Oakley, her husband, was born in New York 
 City, July 2, 1815, and died at Northport, L. I., February 16, 1882, 
 aged sixty-six years, seven months and fourteen days. His remains 
 lie buried in the cemetery there. The following excellent obituary 
 of him, published in Southold, L. I., February 20, 1882, by E. W.^, 
 one of his ministerial friends, is worthy of record here. 
 
 " The Rev. Charles M. Oakley^ a member of the Presbytery of 
 Long Island, died at his residence last week ; and his funeral was 
 attended last Saturday in Northport, where he died He selected 
 Northport for his home a few years since, because one of his sons 
 had been engaged there for several years in the manufacture of 
 silverware ; and the father was able to give him assistance in his 
 somewhat extensive and generally profitable business. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Oakley was born in the city of New York (on the 
 
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 2d of July, 1815), and tlie urbanity and courteousness of his 
 disposition, as well as the remarkable attractiveness of his manners, 
 evinced the advantages of his early training in a christian home 
 amid the refinements of a religious life in the great city. For good 
 breeding and loveliness of character he was unsurpassed in the 
 Presbytery. 
 
 He prepared for the ministry in the Union Theological Seminary, 
 New York city, during the years 1838 and 1839, and was the 
 Presbyterian minister of Nyack, on the Hudson, in the years 1841 
 and 1842, where he was ordained on the 25th of October, in the 
 latter year. Then he became the pastor of the Presbyterian church 
 in the city of Millville, in the southern part of New Jersey, 
 where he faithfully ministered in the gospel four years. During 
 this time he was married to his present wife. From Millville he 
 removed to the city of Philadelphia, where he became the pastor of 
 tlie Port Richmond Presbyterian church. But the condition of his 
 health, never robust at any time during his ministry, led to his 
 retirement from the city, after a trial of two years, and he accepted 
 the pastoral care of North Germantown, New Jersey, where he 
 fulfilled his responsible duties for a period of five years. It was then 
 needful that he should be free from pastoral care and labor for a 
 year or more. But he was able, in 1853, to resume the work for 
 which he had a most hearty desire, and he began a ministry of 
 fourteen years in Melville, Suffolk county. Long Island. These 
 were years of prosperity for the church and of usefulness and 
 comfort for himself and his family. His elder sons grew up to 
 manhood and to ways of industry, virtue, and beneficial activity in 
 this place. 
 
 He was called in 1867 to be the minister of Amagansett, the most 
 eastern church of Long Island ; and here for twelve or thirteen 
 years he was most highly esteemed, greatly beloved, and eminently 
 useful, as long as failing health would permit him to do the respon- 
 sible labor required of a Christian pastor. Forty years of diligent, 
 laborious service in the fulfillment of the duties of the pastoral care had 
 <lone their work. His health was very feeble, and his throat painfully 
 affected. He removed to the place where one of his sons was 
 established in business ; and while he did not cease to preach, but 
 preached frequently upon occasions, he did not undertake the 
 responsibility of leadership and continuous labor. 
 
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 For some months past his health has been gradually giving way. 
 His mental powers remained in their usual soundness ; and his 
 spiritual affections and his Christian life and experience retained all 
 their beauty and charming excellence to the last. 
 
 His wife, several sons, and one daughter survive. His children, 
 having married, had all left the parental home before his removal 
 from Amagansett to Northport. Not only his bereaved widow and 
 children, but also every minister of the Presbytery, and many others 
 of the best and most intelligent Christian people of the county, 
 must grieve that they will hear his voice and behold his serene 
 and spiritually beautiful face no more. E. W. 
 
 Southold, February 20, 1882. 
 
 Rev. Charles M. and Harriet N. Oakley had three sons and two 
 daughters, viz.: — Charles Payson, Robert Strong, Endora Smith, 
 George Warner and Mary Ellen, and they were all church members. 
 
 ist. Charles P., their first son, was born July 3, 1845, and was 
 married June 20, 1872, to Elizabeth DeBow Oakley, by Rev. Dr. 
 Buddington, assisted by Rev. Charles M.Oakley. His occupation 
 is merchant tailor, New York. His Post Office address is i Vesey 
 street, New York. The children of Charles P. and Elizabeth 
 DeBow Oakley, are two daughters. The elder, Mary Forest 
 Oakley, was born August 30, 1876, (a Centennial baby). The 
 youngest, Isabel DeBow Oakley, was born December 28, 1883. 
 
 2d. Robert S., their second son, was born April 16, 1848, and was 
 married March 3, i868j to Margaretta J. Shields, by Rev. James 
 Belden. His occupation is an accountant in A. Raymond & Co.'s 
 clothing store, New York, his Post Office address is 219 Whiton 
 street, Jersey City, N. J. They have had the following eight 
 children — four sons and four daughters : Jennie Shields, Harriet 
 Newell, Lillie May, Henry Shields, George Warner, Katie Mead, 
 Robert Strong and Willie French. 
 
 (i). Jennie Shields, their first child, was born October 26, 1868, 
 and was married December 23, 1889 to Daniel J. Conhey, of New 
 York, by Rev E. F. Crowen, Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 (2). Harriet Newell, their second child, was born October 28', 
 1870, and was married June 20, 1889, to Edward A. Laws, of 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., by Rev. E. F. Crowen, Jersey City, N.J. 
 
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 (3). Lillie May, their third child, was born August 7, 1872, and 
 died June 29, 1880, aged seven years, ten months and twenty two 
 days. 
 
 (4). Henry Shields, their fourth child, was born August 29. 1874. 
 
 (5). George Warner, their fifth child, was born September 24, 
 1876. and died November 5, 1877, aged one year, one month and 
 eleven days. 
 
 (6). Katie Mead, their sixth child, was born September 18, 1878. 
 
 (7). Robert Strong, their seventh child, was born November 3, 
 1880. 
 
 (8). Willie French, their eighth child, was born September 26, 
 1885. 
 
 3rd. Endora Smith, the third child and first daughter of Rev. 
 Charles M. and Harriet N. Oakley, was born April 2, 1849, and 
 died April 30, 1849, aged four weeks. 
 
 4th. George Warner, their fourth child and third son, was born 
 March 26, 1850; wis married January 20, 1881, to Emily Bell 
 Thompson, by Rev. Charles M. Oakley ; was engaged in the 
 manufacture of gold and silver thimbles, Newark, N. J., and died 
 August 3, 1882, aged 32 years, 4 months, and 7 days. He was 
 buried at Northport, L. I. His widow is living in New York. 
 
 5th. Mary Ellen, their fifth child and second daughter, was born 
 August 19,1851, and was married June 27, 1877, to Arthur Butler 
 by Rev. Charles M, Oakley. Mr. Butler is a farmer and lives on 
 Long Island. His P. O. address is Box 122, Huntington, Suffolk 
 county. Long Island, N. Y. They have five children all living and 
 enjoying perfect health. 
 
 (i). Albert Boardman Butler, born September 12, 1878. 
 
 (2)- Margaret Oakley Butler, born April 14,1880. 
 
 (3). Harold Lockwood Butler, born February 7, 1882. 
 
 (4). Harriet Ellen Butler, born March 10, 1884. 
 
 (5). Bessie Adelaide Butler, born May 19, 1886. 
 
 7. Rev. James Potter Hughes, the seventh child of James R. 
 and Eliza E. Hughes, was born at the old homestead, Cape May 
 county, N. J., Dec. 15, 1827. He prepared for college at the Cape 
 May Academy, N. J., Tuscarora Academy, Pa , and Lewistown 
 Academy, Pa., and entered the sophomore class at Princeton College, 
 
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 N. J,, in 1847. He was converted at Cape Island during his 
 Cliristmas vacation of 1848, and joined the First Church at 
 Princeton the following summer. He graduated in 1850, united 
 the same year with the New Brunswick Presbytery as a candidate 
 under their care for the ministry, an.l entered the Theological 
 Seminary at Princeton, September 1850. In 1852, his eyes failing 
 him, he was influenced by Rev. Reuben Lowrie, Rev. Dr. Wm. C. 
 Cattell and others, to accept a call as an Instructor in Luzerne 
 Presbyterial Institute, at Wyoming, Pa., where he remained three 
 years. After which, in 1855, he accepted an appointment as 
 teacher in the Edgehill School, Princeton, N. J., then under the 
 charge of Rev. Wm. C. Cattell, D.D. After six months Mr. Cattell 
 being called to the Presidency of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., 
 he sold the school to Rev. James I. Helm, and Mr. Hughes became 
 associate Principal. After one year Mr. Helm retired, and Mr. 
 Hughes became sole Principal until 1864, when he sold out, 
 and as Principal took charge of the Logansport Academy, 
 Indiana. In September, 1867, he visited Tipton, Iowa, and 
 acted as Superintendent of the Schools in that town until 
 August, 1868, when he accepted a call to the academy in Bellefonte, 
 Pa., as Principal, and where he has been earnestly, faithfully and 
 successfully employed ever since — a period of over twenty-two 
 years, almost a quarter of a century. Many years ago, under his 
 untiring energy, the academy was greatly enlarged and improved ; 
 and lately, under the same undaunted zeal and persevering effort, 
 with a wise understanding of the necessities of a high Christian 
 education for the best interests of the citizens of Bellefonte and of 
 Centre county, both of the present and the future, six thousand 
 dollars have been raised with which a fine residence has been built 
 for the principal, and the academy has been remodeled, enlarged 
 and improved in modern style, so as to be, in itself, an ornament to 
 Bellefonte, the rich and intelligent county seat of Centre county, Pa., 
 and be an increased comfort and power for good, physically, intel- 
 lectually, morally and religiously for all its inmates for the coming 
 century. No one can fully estimate the value of such christian 
 academies. They ought to be multiplied and fostered all over our 
 land. They meet a necessary and growing demand for the safety 
 and perpetuity of both church and state in the higher education of 
 
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 the rising generation which our merely secular institutions can' 
 never fill. Let them be heartily encouraged. They combine, at 
 the lowest pecuniary cost, careful physical training, keen intellectual 
 training, and, best of all, sound religious training — thus preparing 
 every pupil by a well rounded education in body, mind and heart 
 for the best results in any department of effort, for all time and 
 eternity. The Bellefonte Academy is only one out of many of 
 such good influences. As a thorough teacher and a wise disciplin- 
 arian, James P. Hughes has been eminently successful. His 
 influence thus for good has been very great. He has thus trained 
 many who now praise him,* and who are doing efficient work in all 
 the professions, and in all countries as his honored representatives. 
 He is still fitting and sending out students who will be prepared 
 from their first entrance upon college life to take a high position in 
 their classes at Princeton College, N. J., or in any other of our best 
 institutions of learning. I add a few brief testimonials of him out 
 of many similar ones that might be given of his life-long influence 
 for good in his specially chosen department of useful labor. 
 
 Rev. William C. Cattell, D.D., LL. D., formerly President of 
 Lafayette College, Pa., and now the tender and efficient Corresponding 
 Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Ministerial Relief, wrote — 
 " As an instructor, Mr. Hughes is thorough and conscientious, and 
 in the general management of a school, eminently judicious." The 
 late Rev. Alfred Yeomans, D. D., formerly pastor of the Presby- 
 terian church at Bellefonte, Pa., and afterwards pastor of the 
 Presbyterian Church, at Orange, N. J., and who was the efficient 
 agent in getting Mr. Hughes to assume the principalship of the 
 Bellefonte Academy, thus wrote — " The qualifications of Mr. Hughes 
 as a teacher of youth, are, in my judgment, of the very highest 
 order. I would sooner commit a son of mine to his care than to that 
 of any other instructor of my acquaintance." The late Hon. Samuel 
 Linn, of Williamsport, Pa., said, " Having had two sons under the 
 care of Rev. J. P. Hughes, my experience warrants me in pronouncing 
 his school as one of the very best in the country, not only because 
 of opportunities offered to pupils to acquire a thorough education, 
 but also because of the watchful care exercised over their moral 
 and religious training," Once more, T quote a published communi- 
 cation from a friend of his visiting at Cape May, N. J., signed " W. 
 
H. G." — " Prof. J. P. Hughes, the successful principal of the Edgehill 
 School, at Princeton, N. J., for so many years, and now the popular 
 and equally successful principal of " The School in the Mountains," 
 at Bellefonte, Pa., is on the island, and stopping at the Tremont 
 House, or ' Island Home.' Many of his pupils, who are at this 
 pleasant place of resort, take great pleasure in calling upon their 
 revered instructor, for, to his faithful counsels and instruction they 
 attribute much of their success in after life. Cordially do I endorse 
 a statement, recently made by a distinguished gentleman of New 
 Jersey that * rarely does a youthful character come under his hand 
 without being permanently impressed for good.' It affords us 
 pleasure to state that Prof. Hughes, who has attained such eminent 
 success in his calling, is a native of Cape May, where he is still 
 kindly and reverently remembered." 
 
 While teaching at Wyoming, Pa,, Mr. Hughes continued his 
 theological studies, and his relation was changed from the New 
 Brunswick Presbytery to the Luzerne Presbytery, where he was 
 licensed in 1853, and preached in its needy places. In 1868 he 
 was at his request, dismissed to the Presbytery of Huntingdon, 
 where he has often preached in the vacant churches, and was for 
 some time stated supply in the Bald Eagle Church. 
 
 On Thursday June 27, 1861, at 12 m., he was married to Emily 
 Wiltsie Roberts, in Williamsburg, Long Island, by Rev. John D. 
 Wells, D.D. She was the daughter of Charles Roberts, a Ruling 
 Elder in Rev. Dr. J. D. Wells' church, Brooklyn, N. Y.,and Emma 
 Sinclair Roberts, both parents being of Brooklyn, N. Y., and was 
 born September 6, 1840. 
 
 Emily Wiltsie Hughes died at Bellefonte, Pa., with consumption 
 June 8, 1889. She was the mother of eight children, four sons and 
 four daughters, viz. : Emma Sinclair, James Roberts, Eliz-ibeth 
 Rushton, Charles Stone, Marion Foster, Edward Lawrence, Luther 
 Eldredge and Ottilie Roberts. Mrs. Hughes was liberally educated 
 in New York City. She was a faithful Sabbath School teacher in 
 Dr. Wells' church up to the time of her marriage. She had fine 
 talents for music, and an excellent musical education. She was 
 very successful as an instructor, both in vocal and instrumental 
 music. She had the charge of the department of music in the 
 Bellefonte Academy for several years. She had at one time as 
 
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 many as twenty pupils in instrumental music, besides a large vocal 
 class of fifty pupils. Her work was very thorough and very 
 successful. She was faithful in her attendance upon church 
 ordinances. But in her home was her natural sphere where her 
 Christian character was always manifest and where her power was 
 felt. Faithful as a help-meet in keeping up family worship and 
 private prayer ; faithful in reciting choice hymns and precious Bible 
 truths every Sabbath evening at family worship, and faithful in 
 teaching her children the Bible and the Shorter Catechism. Five 
 of her children received Bibles from Governor James A. Beaver at 
 different times for reciting the Shorter Catechism without missing 
 a word ; all of which was due to her faithful training in this respect. 
 Her influence for truth and for Christ will be felt as long as she 
 has pupils or children to survive her, I record here the following 
 obituary notice of her. 
 
 " Alter a long illness of consumption, Mrs. Hughes, wife of Rev. 
 J. P. Hughes, died at Bellefonte, Pa., this morning at three o'clock, 
 June 8, 1889. Two or three times during her illness she was very 
 near death's door, but her fine constitution and strong will power 
 triumphed and she rallied. But now she is gone, and her husband 
 and eight children, in her death, lose a most loving, tender and 
 affectionate wife and mother. This is the first death in a very 
 happy family. The deceased was a lady of the highest Christian 
 character, adding to it a cultivated intellect and an amiable disposi- 
 tion. We most earnestly sympathize with the family in the great 
 grief which they must feel. The deceased was forty-eight years, 
 nine months and two days old." 
 
 The children of Rev. James P. and Emily W. Hughes, as noted 
 above were eight, and the sketches of their lives are briefly as follows, 
 
 ist. Emma Sinclair, was born at Princeton, N. J., January 13, 
 1863. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church ; was educated 
 in her father's school at Bellefonte, also at Birmingham, Pa., 
 and at Burlington, Vermont. She taught with much success her 
 own school for several years at High Bridge, N. J. She afterwards 
 taught Latin, French and German in the Presbyterian Female 
 Institute at Charlotte, North Carolina. For the last few years she 
 has had the charge of the children's department in the Bellefonte 
 Academy. At present writing, October, 1890, she is engaged again 
 
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 in her own school encouragingly at Flat Rock, N. C. Like her 
 mother, she is also a fine musician and meets every demand 
 approvingly, that is made upon her. 
 
 2d. James Roberts was born at Cape Island, N. J., December 
 29, 1864. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and 
 graduated with honor at Princeton College, in June, 1885. He has 
 ever since assisted his father in the Bellefonte Academy, taking the 
 entire charge of the department of ancient and modern languages, 
 and has proved himself to be a popular, thorough and successful 
 teacher. He takes an active interest in christian and church work. 
 He is a member of the church choir, a regular member of the 
 Sabbath school, and the President of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association. He is also the correspondent of Bellefonte for the 
 Philadelphia Press, and a frequent correspondent of other important 
 papers of New York and elsewhere, and wields a ready, reliable pen. 
 
 3d. Elizabeth Rushton was born at Tipton Iowa, November 13, 
 1867 ; is a member of the Presbyterian church ; was educated at 
 Bellefonte Academy and at Birmingham Mountain Seminary ; was 
 associated as a worker in Missionary Bands, and was married in 
 Chicago, Illinois, January i, 1890, to Albert J. Dunseth, of Chicago, 
 by her uncle. Rev. Jacob V. Hughes, of Shawano, Wisconsin. Her 
 home is at Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 4th. Charles Stone was born in Bellefonte, Pa., April 2, 1870 ; is 
 a member of the Presbyterian church ; prepared for college at the 
 Bellefonte Academy, and is now pursuing his studies as a regular 
 student at Princeton college. 
 
 5th. Marion Foster was born in Bellefonte, Pa., November 16, 
 1872; was educated at the Bellefonte Academy, and was married 
 there July 17, 1890, to Frank P. Bassett, a chemist, by Rev. William 
 Laurie, D.D., assisted by her uncle, Rev. Daniel L. Hughes, D.D. 
 Her home is in Bellefonte, Pa. 
 
 6th. Edward Lawrence was born in Bellefonte, Pa., February 25, 
 1876. A bright and promising boy, 
 
 7th. Luther Eldredge was born in Bellefonte, Pa., March 26, 
 1878. A smart and promising boy. 
 
 8th. Ottilie Roberts was born in Bellefonte, Pa., March 9, 1881. 
 An affectionate, lively and interesting little daughter. Oh ! how 
 will these three little ones miss the tender love, watchful care, and 
 
prayerful instruction of their dear, absent mother. May God in 
 covenant grace and mercy ever guide them, and keep them as in 
 the hollow of his hand from all evil. They are all at present at 
 school in the Bellefonte Academy. 
 
 8. Hannah Eliza Hughes, the eighth child of James R. and 
 Eliza E. Hughes, was born in her father's house at Cape May, N. J., 
 February 21, 1830. She made a profession of religion in her early 
 years, and consistently and faithfully maintained it until her dying 
 hour. She received her education under her own father, and Rev. 
 Moses Williamson, her pastor, at Cape May, and at Lewistown 
 Academy, Pa., and afterwards graduated at the Fairview Female 
 Seminary, Jacksonville, Centre county. Pa., under the care of Rev. 
 S. M. Cooper. She then became assistant principal there untd her 
 marriage July 7th, 1852, to Thomas McMinn, a carpenter in that 
 vicinity. They moved to Altoona, Pa., and made that their home 
 until her death, August 15, 1861, aged thirty-one years five months 
 and twenty-four days. The following obituary notice of her was 
 taken from an Altoona paper of that date. 
 
 "Died, in this borough, on the 15th instant, Mrs. Hannah E. 
 McMinn, wife of Thomas McMinn in the thirty-second year of her 
 age. In the decease of Mrs, McMinn, the community mourn the 
 loss of an esteemed friend, the church of an exemplary Christian, 
 and the family of an affectionate wife and loving mother. The 
 characteristic of her Christian life was humility ; always avoiding 
 undue publicity and show, but exhibiting to all the depth of her 
 piety and the fervency of her zeal by a godly walk and conversation, 
 and manifesting her confidence in God by a quiet submission to the 
 aflflictive dispensation of his providences. The same hope which 
 cheered in life sustained her in her declining days. During her 
 protracted and painful illness, she exhibted no ordinary amount of 
 child-like submission to the will of God — uttering no word of 
 complaint, but ever ready to say : 
 
 ' Thy will be done." 
 
 For a considerable time before death she seemed fully aware that 
 her departure was at hand. She looked upon death without alarm, 
 and patiently awaited its approach. She took especial delight in 
 the sacred Scriptures, particularly in the devotional and promissory 
 
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 portions, and seeme<i to be in almost constant communication with 
 God. Her mind remained unclouded till the last — her faith firm 
 and unshaken, and she died as she lived, trusting in the Lord." She 
 was buried in the Altoona cemetery. 
 
 Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Hannah E. McMinn had five children. 
 
 1st. Charles W. was born August i6, 1853, and died June 7, 
 1854, aged nine months and twenty-two days. 
 
 2d. James H. was born August 25, 1855, and died September 19, 
 1856, a^ed one year and twenty-five days. 
 
 3d Lawrence N. was born June 7, 1857, and died October 10, 
 1858, aged one year, four months and three days. 
 
 4th. Elizabeth F. was born at Altoona, Pa., June 20, 1-859. 
 
 5th. John Calvin, was born May, 1861, and died July, 1861, the 
 month before its mother died, aged two months. 
 
 The four sons that died are all buried with their mother in the 
 same lot in the Altoona cemetery, Pennsylvania, and each one has 
 its own proper tombstone. 
 
 Ehzabeth F. McMinn was educated at Birmingham, Pa., from 
 January, 1873, to June, 1876, taught music in Chicago from Sep- 
 tember, 1879, to September, 1889, and was married at Chicago, 111., 
 to Mr. William F. Tucker, at noon on Thursday, September 12, 1889, 
 in St. Paul's Reformed Episcopal Church by the rector. Bishop 
 Samuel Fallows. She now signs her name, Elizabeth F. Tucker. 
 
 Mr. William F. Tucker, her husband, was born September 29, 
 1849, ^^ Enford, Wiltshire, England, and was also educated in 
 England. He came to this country and settled in business in 
 Chicago, and remained there for twelve years. He is now engaged 
 in Minnesota Farm Mortgages, at Minneapolis, Minn. A lady 
 living in Iowa, who met him, thinks he is a splendid gentleman. 
 
 9. Mary Bennett Hughes, the ninth child of James R. and 
 Eliza E. Hughes, was born at Cape May, N. J,, March 25, 1833. 
 She united with the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, May 14, 
 1844, when she was only a little over eleven years old. Like her 
 sisters, she attended school at Cape May, first with her father, and 
 then at the Academy with her pastor. She afterwards spent some 
 time at the Fairview Seminary, in Centre county. Pa., with her 
 sister Hannah Eliza, and then went to Cottage Seminary at Pottstown, 
 Pa., Rev. William Work, Principal, where she graduated. Receiving 
 
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 a call, she taught school one year near Smyrna, Delaware. While 
 there she took a deep interest in the small Presbyterian Church at 
 Smyrna, helped organize a Woman's Sewing Society, and raised 
 5300; then, with the additional aid of the men, they renovated the 
 building and made it one of the prettiest little churches around. 
 That same year a revival of religion commenced there, and numbers 
 were added to the church. Needing rest, Mary B. got her sister 
 Emma to take her place in the school, and then visited her home 
 at Cape May, N. J, After a little she taught there for a time, and 
 then went to Southwestern Iowa, to visit her brother, Rev. Daniel 
 L. Hughes, where she assisted him one winter in a high school at 
 Glenwood, Mills county, Iowa, and afterwards took charge of the 
 public school at Plattsmouth, Cass county, Nebraska. She taught 
 there until she was married by her brother. Rev. Daniel L. Hughes, 
 at his residence in Pacific City, Iowa, on November 15, i860, to 
 Charles Hollister Fletcher, Esq., of Plattsmouth, Nebraska. His 
 father was John Cotton Fletcher, born in the Isle of South Hero, 
 Lake Champlain, Vermont, September 24, 1805. His mother was 
 Sarah Terrell Anthony Fletcher, born in Richmond, Va., September 
 25, 1811. They were married in Springfield, Ohio, May 9, 1832. 
 His father died April 12, 1861, and his mother died June 15, 1886, 
 Both are buried at Burlington, Iowa. 
 
 Charles Hollister Fletcher, their eldest son, was born in Springfield, 
 Ohio, September 7, 1837. He pursued his studies in the Academy 
 in Denmark, Iowa, and at Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois. 
 He then passed through a successful course of study at West 
 Point, N. Y., until May 31, 1856. After leaving West Point, he 
 read law in the office of Browning and Phelps, Burlington, Iowa ; 
 practiced in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, and after marriage visiting 
 Cape May, N. J., with his wife, practiced some there, and also while 
 there united with the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church. They then 
 returned to the home of his parents, Burlington, Iowa. When the 
 war broke out in 1 861, he entered the service of his country as 
 Second Lieutenant, Regular United States Army. He was 
 promoted right along as First Lieutenant ; then as Captain, and 
 then at the battle of Corinth, Mississippi, he was brevetted Major 
 for meritorious conduct. At the close of the war, he resigned his 
 commission on account of ill health ; but with his family he resided 
 
for a numberof years in Louisville, Ky., and in Washington, D. C, in 
 the employ of the Government, after which he came with his family 
 to Chicago, III., and engaged in literary and newspaper business. 
 He resided here during the great Chicago fire on October 9, 1871, 
 and with others suffered there much loss. Dr. C. O. Waters 
 (Calvin), who was an eye witness and a sufferer, also, wrote of that 
 terrible catastrophe thus : — " The fire burned fiercely for twenty-four 
 hours, entirely destroyed the business portion of the city and nearly 
 all its residence districts, made one hundred thousand people 
 homeless, and consumed property amounting to at least ^100.000,000 
 and left Chicago without a bank, without a newspaper office, 
 without a prominent hotel, or a single public building; an event 
 which brought so many pecuniary losses that have never been and 
 never will be replaced, but from which we were glad to escape 
 alive, and in such clothing as was most handy at the time." 
 
 Mr. Fletcher's health again failing him, he, with his family, spent 
 some time at Vinton, Iowa, and then he took the Presidency of the 
 Narrow Guage Railroad project, to connect the South with Iowa 
 and other Western States. He was thus acting at the time of his 
 death. He died at Keosauqua, Iowa, January 2, 1877, aged forty- 
 nine years, three months and twenty-five days, and was buried in 
 the family lot, in the Burlington cemetery, Iowa. 
 
 After his death, his wife having recovered from a long illness 
 returned to Chicago and taught school there until her throat and 
 lungs (ailed her. She rested and visited her brother. Rev. Jacob 
 V. Hughes, at Kllbourn City, Wisconsin, remaining with him for 
 six months, and so far recovered her strength that she was able to 
 return to Chicago and accept the Matronship of the Talcott Home 
 and Free Kindergarten School, that was offered her — where for the 
 last five or six years she has been enabled to do efficient, useful 
 and satisfactory work, even with impaired health, among the poor 
 and fallen classes. Her life has been one of toil and trial — one of 
 energy and piety, of activity and suffering, of devotion and usefulness. 
 
 Hollie Hughes Fletcher, the only son of Charles H. and Mary 
 B. Fletcher, was born in Burlington, Iowa, August 22, 1861, and 
 died in Chicago, III., April 11, 1888, aged twenty-six years, seven 
 months and nineteen days. He was buried in the family lot in the 
 cemetery of Burlington, Iowa. 
 
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 An infant daughter, two months after its father'is death, was born 
 to them in Unionville, Pa., March 2, 1877, and was buried March 
 3, 1877, in Unionville, Pa. 
 
 10. Emma Melinda Hughes, the tenth child of James R. and 
 Eliza E. Hughes, was born at Cape May, N. J., January 22, 1836. 
 She made a profession of religion in the Cold Spring Presbyterian 
 Church, February 12, 1852, when sixteen years of age, and has 
 ever since proved faithful to her covenant Lord and Redeemer. She 
 went to school first to her father, then studied in the Cold Spring 
 Academy under her pastor, then went to Fairview Seminary at 
 Jacksonville, Pa., and from thence to Mt. Holyoke Seminary, Mass., 
 where she spent two years — leaving there in 1856. She then took 
 her sister Mary's place in the school near Smyrna, Delaware, and 
 taught there for some time ; after which she went to the assistance 
 of her brother, Rev. James P. Hughes, at Edgehill School, Princeton, 
 N. J., and remained there until her marriage. She was married 
 July 31, 1 86 1, at Edgehill, Princeton, N. J., by Rev. Charles M. 
 Oakley, to Rev. John Sinclair Roberts, the brother of her sister-in- 
 law, Mrs. Rev. James P. Hughes. Her husband, Rev. John S- 
 Roberts, was born in New York City, July 25, 1839. ^^ received 
 his classical education at the college of the city of New York. 
 After he left college he decided to study law, and went with letters- 
 of introduction to Hon. William F. Seward, Auburn, N. Y., intending 
 to study in his office. Rev. Samuel R. Brown, D.D., of the Dutch 
 Reformed Church, had returned, as a Foreign Missionary, from 
 Singapore, to educate his family and had a school in Auburn. Mr. 
 Roberts, being a fine classical scholar, was engaged to teach some 
 hours in this school. There he met Mrs. Phebe Brown, the mother 
 of Rev. Dr. Drown. It was she who wrote that beautiful hymn — 
 " I love to steal awhile away." She took a great fancy to Mr. 
 Roberts, loving him as a son ; and it was through her influence 
 that he became a Christian. He then changed his plans in regard 
 to law, and preferred to be an ambassador for Christ. He went to 
 Princeton, N. J., studied theology there for three years, and 
 graduated in 1861. During the last two years of his course in the 
 Theological Seminary, he taught Greek in the Edgehill School, 
 Princeton, under the care of Rev. James P. Hughes. After his 
 
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 inarriage in July, he left with his wife, as missionaries, for China, 
 October 12, 1861. There they labored diligently and successfully 
 for four years. Mr. Roberts being an excellent linguist soon 
 acquired the mastery of the Chinese language and spoke it fluently. 
 But in 1864, his health broke down from a disease affecting 
 the blood, so that in 1865, he was compelled to return with his 
 family to America. In 1866, he was chosen assistant to Rev. John 
 D. Wells, D.D., in Brooklyn, E. D. In 1867, he was elected to 
 the chair of Mathematics and Astronomy in Jefferson College, at 
 Canonsburgh, Pa. Here his health again gave way by a hemorrhage 
 -of the kidneys, and he had to resign his professorship. In 1869, 
 he supplied the vacant pulpit in the Bellefonte Presbyterian Church, 
 Pa., for three months ; and as he was an able, fluent and popular 
 preacher, he might have received a call to become its regular pastor 
 had not his impaired health warned him against accepting such 
 heavy responsibilities. 
 
 He went as the first pastor to the Glen Cove Church, N. Y., 
 December 2, 1869. Afterwards, being invited by his brother-in-law 
 to assist him in teaching in the Bellefonte Academy, Pa., he accepted 
 the invitation and returned to Bellefonte in 1871. But he had all 
 along cherished the hope that he might be able to enter soon upon 
 his chosen missionary work in China; and so in 1874, contrary to 
 the advice of many of his friends, he returned with his family to 
 Shanghai, China. He immediately and zealously engaged in his 
 beloved work with all his powers. This work in China consisted 
 -chiefly in preaching and translating the Scriptures. He had charge 
 of four Chinese schools ; he went out to his chapels nearly every 
 day ; itinerated in the country, and he preached often in English 
 to English audiences. His leisure was occupied in studying 
 Chinese. His wife writes, " I never knew of more indefatigable 
 labor." Rev. Dr. J. D. Wells said, " He had done the work of two 
 men in his short life time." But he could stand it no longer. His 
 constitution, never very strong, succumbed through overwork to 
 nervous prostration which affected his brain in 1878. He was again 
 compelled to leave China, and arrived in America, October, 1878. 
 The next day he was taken to Morris Plains, N. J., where he has 
 been ever since, retired from all public and responsible duties. 
 He remains in about the same condition. Sometimes he is cheerful 
 
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 and patient, and at other times he is restless and suffers mentally^. 
 His situation is a very trying one, both for himself and his family. 
 The affliction itself seems a remarkable one providentiall}- — that a 
 gospel minister so gifted, so consecrated, and so useful, must be for 
 so man); years entirely laid aside from all public activity, when the 
 world is perishing for the want of just such devoted laborers. We 
 can only say in the submissive language of Jesus, who was just 
 about to be crucified, " Nevertheless not as I will, but as Thou 
 wilt/' The Christian poet Cowper truly says — 
 
 " Blind unbelief is sure to err; 
 And scan His work in vain ; 
 God is His own interpreter, 
 And he will make it plain." 
 
 Our Heavenly Father himself, in loving kindness, and inspiring 
 our confidence, says : — " Be still and know that I am God : I will 
 be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." 
 
 The children of Rev. John L. and Emma M. Roberts are five — 
 Lida Hughes, Alice Oakley, John Sinclair, Eva Duryea, and Ethel 
 Winn. 
 
 1st. Lida Hughes Roberts was born at Shanghai, China, May 
 i6, 1862, and died at Tung Chow. China, September 8, 1863, aged 
 one year, three months, and twenty-three days. 
 
 2nd. Alice Oakley Roberts was born at Cape May, N. J., Dec- 
 ember I, 1865, and died at Glen Cove, N. Y., December 2, 1870, 
 aged five years and one day. 
 
 3rd. John Sinclair Roberts was born at Glen Cove, N. Y.,, 
 March 7, 1870. 
 
 4th. Eva Duryea Roberts was born at Bellefonte, Pa., May 31^ 
 1872. 
 
 5th. Ethel Winn Roberts was born at Shanghai, China, Decem- 
 ber 10, 1875; ^"d died at Shanghai, China, February 4, 1876, 
 aged one month, and twenty-four days. 
 
 One child died and was buried in America ; and two children 
 died and were buried in China — that far off land — where also the 
 father's and husband's health was twice broken down, and th'" last 
 time irreparably, besides all their many labors and privations there. 
 Surely they have been called to drink of the cup of affliction. 
 
 Of the two living children, John Sinclair, the only son, and Eva 
 
Duryea, the daughter, are both in covenant relation with God ; are 
 both members of the visible church ; both attended school at the 
 Academy in Bellefonte, Pa.; both studied at Blairstown Academy, 
 N. J. Sinclair went from there to Princeton College, N. J., and 
 entered upon a regular course of study in the college classes in 
 preparation for the gospel ministry ; while Eva pursued her music 
 and other studies elsewhere in preparation for college. She is at 
 this present writing going lo College in Baltimore, Md. Mrs. 
 Emma M. Roberts, the wife and mother, has been required, ever 
 smce her husband's permanent illness, to struggle and exert herself 
 to the utmost in every providential and honorable way to sustain 
 herself and family until now. She assisted her brother. Rev. James 
 P. Hughes, some six years in teaching in his Academy at Belle- 
 fonte, Pa., until her own health broke down and she felt obliged to 
 resign her work there. Since then she has assisted in the oversight 
 of domestic and boarding arrangements, in giving private instruc- 
 tion, or in helping Missionary societies and delivering Missionar}- 
 addresses — in all which her native strength of mind, literary culture, 
 moral energy, and varied experience have qualified her for extended 
 usefulness. Her present residence is No. 17 Pastorius street^ 
 Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 II. Amelia Foster Hughes, the eleventh child of James R. and 
 Eliza E. Hughes, was born at Cape May, N. J., June 7, 1839. She 
 united with the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church in her fifteenth 
 year, on March 9, 1854. Her first teacher was her own dear father 
 until she was over thirteen years of age. She then went to Sweet 
 Hollow, Long Island, N. Y., and was under the charge of her 
 brother-in-law. Rev. Charles M. Oakley, for about a year. After 
 that she was a pupil in the seminary at Kishacoquillas, Mifflin 
 county, Pa., under the care of Prof L. G. Grier and Miss Jennie 
 Davis. The following year she spent at the seminary at Pottstown, 
 Montgomery county, Pa., Rev. William R. Work, Principal. The 
 next year she was a pupil at the Worcester College, Worcester. 
 Mass. One of her teachers there was Miss Abby Judson, the 
 daughter of Rev. Adoniram Judson, Missionary to Burmah, India. 
 Miss Abby came over to America when she was twelve years old, 
 and remembered a little Burmese song which she used to sing to 
 
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 her pupils. During the winter of 1859 and i860, in order to take 
 some farther lessons in music and other accomplishments, Amelia 
 F. was a pupil in the Female Seminary on G street, Washington, 
 D. C, Mrs. Thomas Smith, Principal. Her special teacher was 
 Miss Jeannette Douglass, well known at that time in literary circles. 
 During the year 1861 and a part of 1862, she assisted her brother, 
 'Rev. James P. Hughes, at Edgehill, Princeton, N. J., after her sister 
 Emma M. was married and left, in the superintendency of that 
 institution for her brother. It was during Amelia's sojourn there 
 that her own marriage took place. She was married July 9, 1862, 
 by Rev. John Hall, D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Churchy 
 Trenton, N. J., to Mr. John Kershaw, an assistant teacher in the 
 Edgehill School. 
 
 Mr. Kershaw, son of James and Eliza Kershaw, was born in 
 Patterson, N. J., May 14, 1842. After his marriage he taught school 
 at Little Falls, N. J., from September, 1862, to April, 1864. He 
 then taught in New York City from April, 1864, to April, 1868 ; 
 and in the mean time, from 1865 to 1868, went through himself a 
 course of study in the Union Theological Seminary, N. Y., and was 
 licensed to preach the gospel. He next taught school at Passaic, 
 N. J., 1868 to 1873; then was .pastor of the Reformed Church, 
 Brookdale, N. J., 1873, to 1880; then taught in Leadville, Colorado, 
 fi-om September, 1880, to July, 1881. Again he became a pastor, 
 and labored as such in the Congregational Church at Bound Brook, 
 N. J., from December, 1881. to September, 1885. He then accepted 
 an invitation to the Presidency of Tillotson Institute, Austin, Texas, 
 and continued 1885 to 1886; then acted as Superintendent Mis- 
 sionary in the Tennessee mountains, 1886 to 1887, and then became 
 pastor of the Congregational Church, corner of Grand street and 
 Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1887 — where he is at the 
 present time, doing active and efficient work. Mr. Kershaw bought 
 a magic lantern and many beautiful views, some of them from 
 Europe, and with these, in addition to his Mission Chapel work, he 
 is doing a good work in the evenings in the churches of New York 
 City. He has been an enterprising and useful educator, and an 
 interesting and popular preacher. 
 
 The children of Rev John and Amelia F. Kershaw are nine. 
 
 I St. Edward Payson Kershaw was born May 7, 1864, and died 
 
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 January 3, iS66, aged one year, seven months and twenty-six days. 
 
 2d. Eliza Gordon Kershaw was born November 19, 1866. She 
 taught in the Tillotson Institute, Austin, Texas, 1886 and 1887 ; 
 studied at Oberlin College, Ohio, 1888 — 1889, and then taught at 
 North Branch, N. J. She is now, February 26, 1891, principal at 
 61 Poplar street, Brooklyn, New York. 
 
 3d. Carrie Kershaw was born April 27, 1869 ^^^ ^^^^ August 
 22, 1869, aged three months and twenty-five days. 
 
 4th. John Alfred Kershaw was born August 26, 1870, and is 
 engaged in the paper business in New York City, 
 
 5th. Mary Fletcher Kershaw was born September 22, 1872, and 
 died April 29, 1876, aged three years, seven months and seven days. 
 
 6th. Herbert Kershaw was born July 19, 1874, and died April 
 30, 1876, aged one year, nine months and eleven days. 
 
 7th. Albert Van Houten Kershaw was born July 25, 1876. 
 
 8th. Eva Roberts Kershaw was born April 26, 1879. 
 
 9th. Ada Louise Kershaw, the last child, was born October 13, 
 1882. The last three children, Albert, Eva and Ada, are students 
 in the Bound Brook public schools. Albert is in the Grammar 
 Department, and Eva and Ada are in the Intermediate — all trying 
 to prepare for usefulness in future life. 
 
 Mrs. Kershaw, besides experiencing many trials in her family, 
 has been sorely afflicted in her own person with a serious eye 
 trouble. She has been under medical treatment for about two 
 years with ulcer of the cornea in the right eye — requiring her to go 
 to the hospital in Brooklyn every other day for over a year. It has 
 been very expensive, and she has also been called to suffer much. 
 She was not allowed to either read, write or sew, She is doing 
 better, however, now, and is allowed to read or write ;. although 
 she must not tire her eyes, or the inflammation will return. Her 
 physicians say she is doing as well as can be expected, but she 
 fears sometimes that the cloud will never be lifted. Such are some 
 of the ills of life that befall stricken persons and stricken households. 
 But here come in the precious promises of God, as a healing balm 
 to both body and soul, and they are all yea and amen in Christ 
 Jesus. " What time I am afraid I will trust in thee. Many are the 
 afflictions of the righteous ; but the Lord delivereth him out of 
 them all. Perfect through suffering. And we know that all things 
 
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 work together for good to them that love God, to them who are 
 the called according to his purpose." 
 
 12. Rev. Jacob Van Rensselaer Hughes, the twelfth and last 
 child of James R. and Eliza E. Hughes, was born at Cape May, N. 
 J., September ii, 1844. He bears the name of Jacob from both 
 his grandfather and his uncle, and he bears the name of Van 
 Rensselaer from the Rev. Dr. Van Rensselaer, for many years the 
 beloved and efficient corresponding Secretary of our General 
 Assembly's Board of Education, and to whom our father was much 
 attached. Jacob attended school during his earlier years at Cape 
 May, and then when about twelve years of age he was sent to 
 school at Edgehill, Princeton, N. J., and placed under the care and 
 tuition of his older brother James, one of the Principals of that 
 noted school. While here he united upon profession of faith with the 
 First Presbyterian Church at Princeton, and here under the faithful 
 training of his brother and other teachers, he was thoroughly 
 prepared in due time to enter Princeton college, in which he 
 maintained a high grade of scholarship throughout his entire course 
 until his graduation in 1867. He then went to the Theological 
 Seminary at Princeton, and graduated from it in 1870. He was 
 licensed and ordained to preach the Gospel by the Presbytery of 
 New Brunswick, N. J., in the spring of 1870. 
 
 And he has proved himself to be a successful and popular 
 preacher ever since in every station he has been called to fill. His 
 brother James having assumed the Principalship of the Bellefonte 
 Academy, Pa., he first assisted him in teaching there for three or 
 more years, from April 1870 to June 1873. Here he met a lady 
 teacher in the same school, Miss Elizabeth Catharine McGinnes, 
 a graduate of Springfield, Ohio. She was the daughter of the late 
 Rev. James Y. McGinnes, of Shade Gap, Pa., and of Mrs. Elizabeth 
 1\I. McGinnes, after the death of her husband, of Canonsburg, Pa. 
 And on July 27, 1870, we read that Rev. Jacob V. Hughes and 
 Miss Elizabeth C. McGinnes were married at Canonsburg, Pa., by 
 Rev. Wm. F. Brown. He was installed as Pastor of the Presby- 
 terian Church of Unionville and Port Matilda in the Bald Eagle 
 Valley, Centre county, Pa., in 1874, and preached there for nearly 
 five years ; he also supplied Buffalo Run, in connection with them^ 
 
for two years. He tlien accepted an invitation from the Presbyterian 
 Church at Kilbourn City, Wisconsin, to become their pastor. He 
 settled there in March, 1878, and preached for them about three 
 years, when his health and lungs, never very strong, failed him 
 and he was compelled to resign his charge in September, 1881. 
 Both he and his wife were very popular and useful at Kilbourn, and 
 had endeared themselves to the people; so that when Mr, Hughes 
 resigned and was seeking to make other arrangements, the Post- 
 master of that city offered to resign his office in his favor, if he 
 would accept of the Post Office, and with his family remain in 
 Kilbourn City. He did so, and acted as Postmaster there very 
 acceptably for over four years ; when his health being improved, 
 and he thought his lungs would stand preaching again, he accepted 
 a second call from the First Presbyterian Church at Shawano, 
 Wisconsin, and entered April 1886, upon a pastoral work there in 
 that growing county seat. The following clipping from a Cape 
 May City, N. J. paper was originally taken from the Mirror 
 Gazette, of Kilbourn City, Wisconsin, of February 4, 1886. "Rev. 
 J. V. Hughes has tendered his resignation as postmaster at this 
 place, and has accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church at 
 Shawano, Wisconsin. There is no other position in the service of 
 the people so hard to fill satisfactorily as that of a postmaster. It is 
 considered impossible for any man to serve in that capacity and 
 please every patron of the office. And yet, Mr. Hughes has come 
 as near doing that as mortal man can. We do not believe any 
 man was ever more universally liked in that position than he is, 
 and his resignation will cause general regret. This change is more 
 to be regretted from the fact that it will take himself and family 
 from the town. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes have been here for many 
 years, and during his ministry in the Presbyterian Chyrch, and since 
 that time, they have won the highest place in the esteem of the 
 community. Mrs. Hughes' talent and accomplishments have been 
 directed in the interests of our young people, and her place in that 
 ennobling work will not be easily supplied. If they are as highly 
 appreciated by the people of Shawano as they have been here their 
 field of usefulness will only be enlarged." 
 
 At Shawano his labors from the first until now have been 
 appreciated and blessed. He has been both popular and useful. 
 
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 The Interior, of Chicago, 111., under date of August, 1890, says '. 
 "The work in Shawano, Wisconsin, moves on very smoothly and 
 with a great degree of encouragement. The services are well 
 attended, and the Sabbath School and Prayer Meeting well 
 sustained. Three persons have lately been added to the Presby- 
 terian Church, and the Rev. J. V, Hughes has great reason for 
 gratitude for the progress made during the five years of his pastorate." 
 We also insert here the following approving reference to him,, 
 taken from the Cape May Wave, March 21, 1891 : — 
 
 " We are glad to learn from one of our religious papers that 
 Rev. J. V. Hughes, brother of Rev. Daniel L. Hughes, now 
 sojourning with us, who is pastor of the Presbyterian Church, 
 Shawano, Wisconsin, is being greatly prospered in his ministry. 
 His church is in the midst of a powerful revival, in and on account of 
 which the whole town is moved. This will be gratifying news to 
 his friends and relatives here." 
 
 But here a very dark shadow fell across his path. The deepest 
 sorrow of his life came to his heart and home in the loss of his dear 
 wife, and companion in labors. She died at Shawano, Wisconsin, 
 May 1 1, 1888, aged forty-five years and nine days ; and was buried 
 in the beautiful cemetery there, with these choice words engraven 
 on her monument — " I shall be satisfied when I awake with His 
 likeness." Brother Jacob wrote me under date of Shawano, Wis.^ 
 May 18, 1888, " I feel as if I had lost so much; but God is very 
 gracious to me, I can hardly believe dear L. has gone, but alas, 
 it is only too true." 
 
 Mrs. Hughes was born May 2, 1843, at Lewiston, Illinois. Her 
 maiden name was Elizabeth Catharine McGinnes, named after her 
 mother. She was the daughter of Rev. James Y. and Elizabeth 
 M. McGinnes, as already stated. 
 
 Rev. J. Y. McGinnes was born of godly parents at Shippensburg,. 
 Pa., December 8, 18 15, his father being a Ruling Elder in the 
 Presbvterian Church of that place, and he died on Sabbath morning, 
 August 31, 1851, at Shade Gap, Huntingdon county, Pa., aged 
 thirty-five years, eight months and twenty-three days, and in the 
 eleventh year of his ministry, beloved of all, lamented by all. He 
 graduated at Jefferson College, Pa., in the Fall of 1835 ; studied 
 theology at South Hanover, Indiana from 1837 to 1840; was 
 
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 licensed by the Presbytery of Madison, in South Hanover, June 27, 
 1840 ; was married October 22, 1840, to Miss Elizabeth M. Criswell, 
 of Franklin county, Pa., to whom he had been engaged for two 
 years ; was ordained by the Presbytery of Peoria, at Knoxville, 111., 
 September 4, 1841, and was installed pastor of the Lewistown 
 Presbyterian Church, Illinois, September 19, 1841. But having 
 preached here with great acceptance for three-and-a-half years, he 
 was compelled because of repeated bilious attacks to leave that 
 beloved charge in October, 1843, ^^^ return for his health and life 
 to the more congenial climate of his native air among the mountains 
 of Pennsylvania. In October, 1844, he began his remarkably useful 
 labors at Shade Gap, Huntingdon county. Pa., as the pastor of the 
 Presbyterian Church there, and the founder and principal of 
 Milnwood Academy. He there stamped his own name with 
 imperishable honor, and blessed the church and the world with the 
 institutions of his own creating genius. But for a fuller account of 
 his life, character and writings, I must refer you to a sketch I 
 prepared and published of him in Philadelphia, in 1854, in a 12 mo. 
 volume of 352 pages. He was one of the most popular and 
 efficient preachers and teachers of his day, during his short life. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth M. McGinnes, his wife, was born in Franklin 
 county, Pa., October 22, 1818. She was a most prudent and 
 devoted wife, a loving and faithful mother, a kind and sympathizing 
 neighbor, and an active, benevolent and devoted Christian. After 
 her husband's death she lived thirty-sixn years in widowhood. She 
 died at Canonsburg, Pa., February 10, 1887, aged sixty-eight years. 
 She went to meet loved ones in heaven. Besides her highest joy 
 in seeing her dear Saviour face to face, what a blessed reunion 
 must she have had with her long parted husband. How much 
 would they have to tell each other ! " What knitting of severed 
 friendships up; where partings are no more." Before her last 
 special affliction, she told her daughter, Mrs. Amanda Goheen, one 
 day after she had returned from India, that she never expected to 
 be well again; "but," she said, "you must not worry about me. I 
 have not the shadow of a doubt. My peace is like a river." Her 
 beautiful life of trust is her testimony. She suffered very greatly 
 without a murmur the last few days of her life. She knew she was 
 dying, and, a few hours before she died, she looked around from one 
 
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 to the other grouped about her bedside and said, "Annie," missing the^ 
 dear daughter — widow of the late Rev. James Johnston Hull, who' 
 had returned to India, after her husband's death. 
 
 Rev. James Johnston Hull (Annie's husband) was born at Sum- 
 mitville, Columbiana county, Ohio, March 20, 1847. After his- 
 ordination by the Presbytery of Steubenville, in 1872, he went as a 
 Foreign Missionary to India, and labored at Kolapoor and 
 Ratnagiri, India, from 1872 — 1879. He married at Bombay, 
 December 21, 1874, Anna M. the daughter of the late Rev. J. Y, 
 McGrinnes. Afterwards, his health failing him, he returned to the 
 United States in 1879, and died of consumption at Suffolk, Virginia, 
 March 8, 1882, and was buried at Canonsburg, Pa. Rev. John M. 
 Smith, the pastor of Mrs. E. M. McGinnes, spoke very tenderly 
 at her funeral from the words, " Precious in the sight of the Lord 
 is the death of his saints." Every one in Canonsburg loved her^ 
 and her funeral was a very large one, and the sympathy for her 
 family in their bereavement was very intense. The following 
 obituary of her was written and published by her daughter, L. M. 
 H., (Lizzie M. Hughes). 
 
 " Elizabeth M. McGinnes, widow of the late Rev. J. Y. McGinnes, 
 entered into the joy of her Lord at Canonsburg, Pa., February 10, 
 1 887, sixty-eight years old. It could truthfully be said of her. ' She 
 has changed her country, but not her companionship, for while on 
 earth she walked with God.' All that knew her will testify to her 
 strong faith, her cheerfulness under trials and discouragements, her 
 unselfishness, her sacrifices, even giving two daughters to the 
 foreign missionary work, rejoicing that the Master had need of 
 them. She was pre-eminently useful in the Church, interested in 
 all its benevolent work, a comfort and help to her pastor. The 
 last year of her life a sad cloud obscured her mental vision, forever 
 lifted now. " It came to pass that at eventide there was light." 
 
 Praise God, the Shepherd is so sweet, 
 
 Praise God, the country is so fair, 
 We could not keep her from his feet, 
 
 But we will go to meet her there." 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth (Lizzie) M. Hughes, the wife of Rev. Jacob V. 
 Hughes, was a child of the covenant. In her infancy she was 
 dedicated to God in the ordinance of baptism by her believing 
 
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 parents, and then trained up in one of the most affectionate and 
 godly famihes. She early consecrated herself to the Lord, and was 
 zealously devoted to him all her life. She received her education 
 at Shade Gap Academy, Huntingdon county, Pa., which her father 
 founded and successfully carried forward until his death; and at 
 Springfield, Ohio, under the care of Rev. Dr. Wilson. She taught 
 for some time in the Female Seminary, at Academia, Juniata county. 
 Pa,, and then for three or more years at the Bellefonte Academy, 
 Pa. But her grand work was as a pastor's wife in the West, for 
 the last ten years of her life. I will here quote what the Shawano 
 Advocate, Wisconsin, in referring to the sad event of her death, 
 said of her character : 
 
 "Shawano people who were honored in acquaintance with Mrs. 
 Hughes were at loss which most to admire — her brightness and 
 eagerness of mind and rare cultivation, or the strong, tender beauty 
 of her heart and character. She was a thorough student of the 
 topics of the day ; but it was her womanliness and loving Christian 
 sympathy rather than her intellectuality which, after all, most 
 appealed to those who knew her. Her wise councils and familiarity 
 with the Bible made her sought after by those in extremity, who 
 went to her as a place of refuge ; and none ever sought in vain. 
 
 To those of her own home she was a rare treasure whose worth 
 it were impertinent to attempt to estimate. Their loss in her death^ 
 though great, is exceeded by their gain in having lived under such 
 an influence. Her living sweetened life for all who knew her, and 
 most blessed and most ennobled those to whom she was nearest." 
 
 I will also quote what was publis hed of her in the Presbyterian, 
 of Philadelphia, Pa., June 9, 1888. 
 
 "Entered into rest, May ii, Elizabeth McGinnes, beloved wife 
 of Rev. J. V. Hughes, of Shawano, Wisconsin. From early youth 
 a child of God, wherever her lot was cast the Church of Christ 
 found in her a faithful, consecrated worker. But it was in the home 
 as wife and mother that this sweet life shone the brightest. There 
 * the eyes that smile no more, the unreturning feet,' will be most 
 sadly missed. From the beginning of her brief sickness she felt 
 the Master was calling her ; and her last audible prayer was — 
 ' Hide me under the shadow of thy wing, I shall be satisfied, satisfied, 
 
when I awake with thy likeness.' Forever, hers is now the sweet- 
 ness and rest of which she so loved to sing : 
 
 ' Jesus the very thought of thee, 
 
 With sweetness fills my breast ; 
 But sweeter far thy face to see, 
 
 And in thy presence rest.* " 
 
 My mother, paid the following tribute to her in a letter to me of 
 December 21, 1874, written at Unionville, Centre county, Pa., 
 where in her seventy-eighth year, she had been sorely afflicted with 
 jieuralgia in her whole body for a month while homed with her 
 son Jacob, so that it was with difficulty she could move in bed — 
 said she : " Dear Lizzie was so very kind, and nursed me faithfully. 
 I desire to be very thankful for her kindness." She was familiarly 
 called " Lizzie," and signed her name, " L. M. H." When the 
 news of her death reached India, her sister there wrote the 
 following piece of poetry, dated Kolhapur, India, June 24, 1888, 
 which, was afterwards published in the Shawano county Journal^ 
 Wisconsin, May 2, 1889. 
 
 IN MEMORIAM— L. M. H. 
 
 Sweet Sister, whose dear head now lieth low, 
 Beneath a northern sky, so cold and gray, 
 I, far across the seas, in summer lands, 
 Stretch out my arms to thee, and mourn and weep 
 That thou art gone — and I, no more on earth 
 Shall look in thy dear face, nor clasp 
 Thy welcoming hand. 
 
 " Until the Heavens be no more" — oh awful fiat ! 
 
 "They arise not, nor awake." 
 
 But is there not another word — a word of Hope ? 
 
 " Until day dawn, and Star of Day arise ?" 
 
 Come speedily, O day of God, and right the wrong. 
 
 And bring us back our lost — our eyes do fail 
 
 With looking upward. 
 
 O Saviour Christ, bearing our griefs, our sorrows 
 Carrying — help us a little while to hold thy hand 
 Even in darkness. Till at lengtli for us there shines 
 The light of Home. Our Father's House, 
 Where face shall answer once again to face. 
 And hands clasp hands, now folded 
 Close and still. 
 
 I present also the following resolutions to show the estimation 
 in which she was held by her fellow Christian workers. 
 
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 Shawano, May 15th, 1888. 
 
 At a called meeting of the executive committee of W. C. T. U., 
 the following resolutions were adopted : 
 
 Whereas, We have been called upon to mourn the loss of our 
 late President and Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Hughes, 
 
 Resolved, That while we acknowledge the power and wisdom 
 of Him, who doeth all things well, we desire to express our heartfelt 
 appreciation of her pure Christian character, her wise counsel and 
 prompt response to duty, and we pray that the influences of her 
 lovely ard gentle life may abide with us. 
 
 Resolved, That we tender our sympathy to the devoted husband 
 and family of the deceased, who now deplore the loss of a lovmg 
 wife and mother, and pray that the God of the afflicted may grant 
 them fortitude in this their time of sorrow. 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be addressed to the 
 family and friends of the deceased, also published in our city papers 
 and placed upon our society records. 
 
 And lastly, I record, because the influence of such a consecrated 
 and useful life should never be lost, the following, in memory of 
 Mrs. J. V. Hughes, read at the memorial service of the Sabbath 
 School, May 20, 1888, and published in the Shawano Journal, 
 Wisconsin, July 12, 1888: — 
 
 " When a fragrant flower that has delighted us with its perfume 
 has been removed, how long its aroma will remain to delight the 
 senses with its delicious odors ; or when sweet strains of delicious 
 music fall upon the ear, how often they make an impression deeper 
 than the pleasure at first given, so that a song once sung, or notes 
 once heard, may strike upon the mind and heart so strongly, that 
 long afterwards, little by little, the measure comes back to us, time 
 after time, and if we cultivate their memory, the full and complete 
 melody may be wrought out to us, to gladden our hearts with its 
 sweetness. It is told us by astronomers, that if some of the fixed 
 stars were blotted out or destroyed, their light would continue to 
 shine upon us for months or possibly for years afterwards. 
 
 So it is that a human life may be so full of beauty, of sunshine, 
 of helpfulness and cheerfulness, that the impression made by it will 
 remain far stronger than the fragrance of the flower, the sweetness 
 of music, or the brightness of the stars, for though ' Heaven and 
 earth may pass away,' good words, acts of kindness, and the silent 
 influence of a pure_life, live forever. 
 
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 If you throw a pebble into the water, you see a circle formed at 
 the spot where it fell, and another larger than the first until they 
 are lost to sight, but still the impulse goes on and on until it is lost 
 in the boundary of the lake. So our words make waves invisible 
 in the air, and the undulations go on and on, philosophers tell us. 
 forever ; and if they are words of kindness and love, who can 
 determine the limit of their influence for good ? 
 
 The only aim of the departed was to do good to those around 
 Tier, and to make her life a living epistle that might be known and 
 read by all who knew her. It was not to be praised by those who 
 were about her, but to imitate the example and obey the teaching 
 of the Master in doing good unto all as she had opportunity, and 
 whose devotion to duty was best known to those who were intimate 
 with her and knew her best. 
 
 From personal observation, I never knew one who seemed more 
 zealous than she to fully make the " Golden Rule" the guide of her 
 life. At all times ready to sacrifice her own comfort for the good 
 of others, if she could thereby cause one ray of sunshine to gladden 
 a human heart. Verily in her life * she did what she could,' and 
 that is the highest encomium that can be pronounced upon any life. 
 
 Did she learn of the illness of one known or unknown to her, 
 whom she thought she could cheer by a kind word or act, she was 
 ever ready to respond to any call that was made upon her. Could 
 she by a kind word cheer the heart of those who were cast down, 
 or filled with sorrow, her ear was ever open to listen and her lips 
 to respond with comfort, hope and cheer. Was there a season of 
 festivity, none were more ready than she to add the sunshine of 
 her presence and the joyousness of her words. Her's was eminentl} 
 a cheerful, hopeful life, — quiet, unobtrusive, with the most sensitive 
 appreciation of the love of her friends, and utterly devoid of anything 
 unreal. In the Sunday School, or in any call to consider its interests^ 
 she was always present, and her words of counsel were always prized. 
 
 In the social and prayer meetings of the church and in all her 
 social relations in life, her example was an inspiration to all who 
 knew her. In all Christian works of benevolence her voice and 
 service were ever ready to obey the call of duty, and whenever she 
 could do good she was ready to act. In her last days of pain and 
 bodily suffering, when to use her own words, she felt that life's 
 
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 journey was near its end, her cheerfulness, patience, forgetfulness 
 of self in her anxiety for others, her trust, her faith, none can 
 appreciate except those whose sad privilege it was to be with her. 
 
 Of her life in her own household I will not speak, for those alone 
 can understand her — for whom she lived. 
 
 Of her it can truly be said — 
 
 " She stretched out her hand to the poor; 
 She reached forth her hands to the needy ; 
 She opened her mouth with wisdom ; 
 And in her tongue was the law of kindness. 
 Her children shall rise up and call her blessed ; 
 And her works shall praise her in the gates. 
 
 The inspiration of her life seemed to be in these beautiful lines 
 of Miss Havergal's, which she often quoted: 
 
 " Take my life and let it be 
 Consecrated, Lord, to Thee ; 
 Take my hands and let them move 
 At the impulse of Thy love. 
 Take my lips and let them be 
 Filled with messages for Thee ; 
 Take my intellect and use 
 Every power as Thou shalt choose ; 
 Take my will and make it Thine — 
 It shall be no longer mine." 
 
 Who can estimate the influence of a life so rounded out and full 
 of all that goes to make a character like hers, and who can say 
 when its remoter impressions will cease ? 
 
 May its purity, its harmony, its melody, light and fragrance, 
 make our lives richer and more noble, and may the memory of her 
 devotion to duty stimulate us to act well our parts wherever our 
 lots may be cast." 
 
 The children of Rev. Jacob V. and Lizzie M. Hughes, were four, 
 three living and one dead. 
 
 Elizabeth McGinnes Hughes was born at Bellefonte, Pa., November 
 II, 1 87 1, and died and was buried there at the age of nine months. 
 
 Mary Fletcher Hughes was born at Unionville, Pa., February 
 22, 1874. 
 
 Harold Dalrymple Hughes was born at Unionville, Pa., May 16, 
 1876. 
 
 Alice McGinnes Hughes was born at Unionville, Pa., July 4, 1877. 
 
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 The total number of James R. and Eliza E. Hughes' children,, 
 grand-children, and great-grand-children — including those of Ann 
 L. Foster — ^were 153, of whom 107 are now living, making with: 
 the Lawrences' and Eldredges' a total of 245. The most of those 
 who have arrived at the age of maturity, are the professed followers. 
 of Christ, and are useful, happy and blessed in their several house- 
 holds and varied trades and professions. 
 
 The Hughes', Eldredge's and Edmonds' were related. In the 
 line of cousins I will speak of Rev. James M. Edmonds, who was a 
 Cape May boy, and who grew up to be one of its most honored 
 Christian Ministers and Teachers. He was the son of James and 
 Harriet Howe (Whittemore) Edmonds. His father was born at 
 Cape May, N. J., September 9, 1800, and died September 27, 1833, 
 aged thirty-three years and eighteen days — when James M. was 
 only six years and four months old. His mother was born in 
 Connecticut, in 1798, and died at Cold Spring, Cape May, N. J., 
 September 12, 1844, aged forty-six years. She was the daughter 
 of Samuel Whittemore and Sarah Wales Whittemore, of Mansfield, 
 Connecticut, and a niece of Dr. Roger Wales, of Cape May, N. J. 
 In 1822, she went with an invalid cousin, Mrs. Williams, from 
 Bolton, Connecticut, to Cape May, to spend a few months by the 
 seashore, under the care of their uncle, for the improvement of 
 health, and on January 28, 1823, she married James Edmonds, of 
 Cold Spring, Cape May, N. J. They had three children, viz: 
 
 ist. William W., who was born May 2, 1825, and died of cholera 
 on a business trip from Philadelphia to St. Paul, leaving a wife and 
 daughter residing in Philadelphia. 
 
 2d. James M., who was born June i, 1S27, became a prominent 
 minister of the gospel, married a sister of Rev. W. R. Work, and 
 died five days after. His widow has since died. 
 
 3d. Emily J,, who was born December 30, 1830, married Rev. 
 William R. Work, Principal of the Female Seminary at Pottstown, 
 Pa., and had two children. She died, and her children also, several 
 years ago. Mrs. Harriet H. Edmonds, widow of James Edmonds,. 
 married second. Judge Eli B. Wales, September 10, 1839, and had 
 one son, George Hunter Wales. He was born 1841, and died 
 March 3, 1870, aged twenty nine years. 
 
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 I was only a boy when James M?s father died, but I remember 
 liim as a steady, dih'gent and excellent man ; while I remember his 
 mother well, as a very estimable Christian lady, a member of the 
 •Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, intelligent, kind, refined, and 
 beloved by everybody. 
 
 James M. was educated, talented, consecrated and beloved ; but 
 he was one of death's early victims. Pie was suddenly cut down 
 in the very midst.of his enlarged and successful plans of usefulness. 
 He died at Absecon, New Jersey, March 23, 1858, aged thirty 
 years, nine months and twenty two days. When thirteen years of 
 age he united with the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, and his 
 heart turned at once towards the ministry. He received his early 
 education at the Cold Spring Academy, then went to the Tuscarora 
 Academy, Pa., and afterwards entered the Freshman Class at 
 Jefferson College, Pa., where he graduated in 1849. Through his 
 entire course he was recognized as one of the best and most 
 promising students. Rev. Robert F. Sample, D.D., in his sketch 
 of him in the College Annual of 1889 says, "No member of the 
 class of '49 was more admired and beloved than the young man 
 who came from the extreme southern part of New Jersey. Of 
 medium height, well rounded, vigorous, with a large head, pleasant 
 face and cordial manner, he soon became popular, and retained the 
 esteem of his fellow students." 
 
 When my wife and I were on a visit, August, 1848, to David 
 Hughes, M. D., my old classmate and room-mate at Jefferson 
 College, in Hickory, ten miles West of Canonsburg, my wife, who 
 kept a diary of our journey, has the following record: " Aug. 29. 
 We left Canonsburg after dinner and went to Dr. Hughes' again, 
 intending to stay there until the next morning and then go five 
 miles to see James M. Edmonds, who is teaching school there 
 during his college vacation ; but on our arrival the Doctor informed 
 us he had taken a horse to James, and he would be down to stay 
 all night. He came about six o'clock this evening, and was so 
 overjoyed (I suppose) at hearing there was some one from Cape May 
 that he did not understand who he was to see — though the Doctor 
 told him — until he came. We spent the evening talking over old 
 times at Cape May. Aug. 30. — James left early this mornino-. 
 Mr. Scott, who works the Doctor's farm, took him a part of the way. 
 
James seems very industrious and persevering. Rev. Dr. Brown,. 
 (President of Jefferson College) told us that he is a young man of 
 fine talents and very correct habits, and will distinguish himself. 
 We have heard from several that he stands high at College. I felt 
 very sorry for James. He said he scarcely ever heard from Cape 
 May, except what he heard through Rev. Mr. Williamson, and that 
 was only twice a year, I told him all the news I could think of, 
 for he said he had had none since May." The following paper 
 taken from the Presbyterian, and which was adopted by ^the- 
 Presbytery of West Jersey at Woodbury, New Jersey, April 8, 
 1858, contains a fuller, although brief sketch, of his life, after he 
 left College, until his lamented death. 
 
 " Only one year ago this Presbytery was called upon to record 
 the death of one of its older members, the pastor of the church 
 with whom we are assembled ; now we mourn the removal of one 
 of the youngest of our brethren, the Rev. James M. Edmonds. 
 Perhaps the Presbytery has never lost a member whose death 
 seemed more mysterious and unexpected, or more generally and 
 deeply deplored. 
 
 Mr. Edmonds was born June ist, 1827, at Cold Spring, Cape 
 May county, New Jersey, where he received his early education, 
 and at the age of thirteen years made a public profession of his 
 faith. Immediately he was solicitious to study for the ministry, and 
 soon entered Tuscarora Academy ; indue time he graduated at 
 Jefferson College, and then taught in a classical academy at Fagg's 
 Manor, Pa., until he entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton. 
 Upon the failure of his eyesight he left the Seminary, and, accepting 
 a commission from the American Sunday Union for a year, organized 
 a large number of Sabbath Schools in Tennessee. Returning to 
 the Seminary, his eyes again failed, but by means of the lectures, 
 and by the aid sometimes of a kind fellow-student, and sometimes 
 of an affectionate sister reading aloud to him, he acquired such a 
 store of theological knowledge as to pass a superior examination 
 on all the subjects preparatory to licensure. 
 
 He was licensed to preach the gospel by this Presbytery, in April, 
 1855, ^^^^ eighteen months afterwards was ordained as Evangelist, 
 to continue his labors at Leed's Point, Absccon, Batsto, and other 
 places in Atlantic county. He was married at Frankford, Pa., on 
 
March i8, 1858, to Miss Isabella B. Work, and five days afterward 
 his eyes were closed in death. 
 
 This sore bereavement, so unexpected and so mysterious, calls 
 upon us to be still, and know that the Lord reigneth. Verily, O 
 Lord, thou art a God that hidest thyself! Clouds and darkness are 
 round about thee, yet justice and judgment are the habitation of 
 thy throne, That he who doeth all things well, will render it 
 subservient to his own glory, we know. That he will make it 
 conducive to the interests of the mission field, left vacant by this 
 bereavement, we will pray and hope. Our brother was exceedingly 
 conscientious in the discharge of every duty, and exact even in that 
 which is least ; most diligent in business, and fervent in spirit ; 
 amiable, modest and cheerful ; a ripe scholar — a devoted Christian. 
 As a preacher, he was clear and logical ; grasping his subject with 
 powerful analysis, he opened to his hearers the first principles of 
 truth, rich in thought, full of the gospel, and love to souls. Few 
 persons could secure such an influence for good over the minds of 
 children and youth. The large number of people who attended 
 his funeral, and the deep feeling that pervaded the assembly, the 
 tearful eyes of old and young during the discourse delivered on 
 that occasion, manifested how deeply they felt their loss. 
 
 Whilst we mourn with a church deprived of a beloved minister, 
 and with the lambs of the flock who have lost a faithful under 
 shepherd, we tender our sincere sympathies to his only sister, the 
 last survivor of his earlier domestic circle, and especially to the 
 widowed bride, wh.->se joy was so soon turned into mourning, and 
 whose cherished plans of usefulness and happiness were so suddenly 
 blighted. Sensible of the insufficiency of all human support, we 
 commend her to the " God that comforteth those that are cast 
 down," to the Saviour, who can sympathize with us in all our 
 infirmities, praying that some rays from the light of His countenance 
 may penetrate and illumine the dark and mysterious cloud which 
 now overwhelms her spirit. 
 
 Resolved, That as it is proposed to erect a monument to the 
 memory of Mr. Edmonds by the voluntary offerings of his friends, 
 therefore the Revs. Moses Williamson, Samuel Beach Jones, D.D., 
 and Allen H. Brown, be a committee of Presbytery, to receive 
 contributions for this purpose. 
 
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 Resolved, That a copy of the above minute be sent to the 
 Presbyterian, and to the sister and widow of the deceased." 
 
 The monument above referred to was erected to Rev, James M. 
 Edmonds, by a bereaved congregation and many friends at Leeds 
 Point, Atlantic count}% N. J. Omitting dates already recorded, 
 we read of him on this monument the following — " xA-S a friend, 
 modest, cheerful, afiectionate ; as a Christian, humble, conscientious, 
 zealous ; as a preacher, evangelical, instructive, persuasive. Beloved 
 and mourned of all, but most of all by the children of his Sabbath 
 school and academy. ' Therefore watch and remember, that b}' 
 the space of three years, I ceased not to warn every one night and 
 day with tears.' Acts 2o: 31." Also a tablet was inserted by his 
 pupils in the wall of the school house at Absecon, bearing these 
 words : " Dedicated to Rev. James M. Edmonds, the founder of 
 this institution, beloved while living, mourned when dead, his 
 memory is cherished by his pupils. Born at Cold Spring, N. J., 
 lane i, 1827. Died at Absecon, March 23, 1858. 'Be ye followers 
 of me as I also am of Christ.' i Cor. 11 : i." 
 
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93. 
 
 OLD BRICK CHURCH. 
 
 Before proceeding farther with our family history, it may be well 
 to introduce here a picture ol the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, 
 with which the most of my ancestors and relatives were connected, 
 and of the beautiful cemetery that surrounds it, in w^iich the most 
 of those who are gone are buried. They let their light shine all 
 around them, and served God their Saviour well while they lived ; 
 now, there they sweetly sleep in Jesus, hopefully awaiting the 
 glorious resurrection morning, while their spirits are rejoicing with 
 all the ransomed of the Lord, around His throne in heaven. 
 
 It may be well, too, to give here a brief sketch of the character 
 and history of this church for those interested in it. Oh, how 
 many precious souls have been saved and trained up for usefulness 
 here, and glory hereafter, by this old Presbyterian Church from its 
 beginning until now. How grand its work ! How glorious its 
 reward ! And how many gems to help brighten the Saviour's 
 crown ! Surely the past should stimulate those of us who remain, 
 to still grander work for the Master, to still more self-denials, and 
 to still higher consecration even to the last. Faithful unto death, 
 we ourselves also shall receive a crown of life, while our works will 
 not be in vain in the Lord. We shall rest from them, but they 
 will still follow us. 
 
 The Cold Spring Presbyterian Church has been a church of 
 religious revivals, a church of the right hand of the Most High. 
 These have been the source of her spiritual growth and power. 
 God has often proved to her that He hears and answers prayer, 
 and that He is a covenant-keeping God. He has often poured out 
 His Holy Spirit upon her, and granted her times of refreshing from 
 His presence and from the glory of His power, and she has thus 
 often been wafted onward and upward in her earnest endeavors to 
 be Christlike, and to build up His kingdom in the salvation of 
 precious souls. These revivals spring from the breath of God, or 
 from the live coals off His holy altar. The apostle Paul said, " I 
 have planted, Apollos watered ; but God gave the increase." The 
 prophet Zechariah wrote, " Not by might, nor by power, but by 
 my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts." From brief flashes of the 
 
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 past history of this church we learn that among other precious 
 seasons of grace, in the years 1740 — 1743, under the labors of 
 Messrs. Finley and Robinson, God thus remembered her in His 
 rich mercy. In the year 1780 — 1781, under Mr. Watt, another 
 large ingathering of souls to the church was enjoyed from the 
 Holy Spirit's special presence and power. Also in the years 1833, 
 1840, 1841 and 1856, during the long pastorate of Mr. Williamson, 
 there were might) outpourings of the Spirit that shook the whole 
 church and community. I remember that at one time especially 
 when the church seemed asleep and dead, and the old elders were 
 passing away, the great anxiety and inquiry among the true people 
 of God were, what shall we do ? The elders will all soon be gone, 
 and we have none to take their places, and the church is likely to 
 die out. This anxiety led to a sense of their dependence on God 
 and to increased prayer for his presence aiid help. Soon God came 
 down in mighty power in the rich outpourings of His Holy Spirit, 
 and the two remarkable revivals of 1840 and 1841 occurred. The 
 happy results of which were that 122 or more were savingly added 
 to the church. Then there was plenty new material for elders, 
 out ol which were elected the Reeves' brothers, and others — a 
 splendid and efficient addition to the old session. And such elders 
 have been continued until now, so easy is it for God always to 
 work in answer to prayer for the good of his church and people. 
 And then during the winter of 1886 — 87, under its last pastor, the 
 Rev. J. L. Landis, the church experienced another gracious revival, 
 as I witnessed, when present there, on March 27th, 1887. We 
 should praise the Lord, then, for the past, and trust Him for the 
 future, upon which we should enter with renewed consecration, 
 prayer, zeal and hope. 
 
 But while the Cold Spring Church was prospered by her various 
 and extensive revivals of religion in her increased numbers and 
 enlarged spiritual gifts and graces, she was also blessed in her 
 material prosperity ; in her increased buildings, and in her enlarged 
 improvements. 
 
 The first church is said to have been a small log building, which 
 stood near the road and rather to the right of the present one, 
 which must have been built very early. The Rev. Abijah Davis, 
 writing after 1791, says it was built about 17 18. It was called 
 
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 " The meeting house," and we read elsewhere of its being in use so 
 early as May 19th, 1724. 
 
 The second church was a frame or shingle building, larger than 
 the first, that I well remember seeing, which stood near the road 
 and beside some very large trees near the gates of the old grave 
 yard. It was also built quite early, about forty years after the first 
 one, and was also called ■' The meeting house." It was built during 
 the pastorate of Rev. Daniel Lawrence. Rev. Mr. Webster in his 
 history says, it was built in the year 1762, and that the frame of it 
 remained in use till 1824. But it was built earlier than this, for we 
 read in Aaron Leaming's published manuscript that as early as 
 March 26, 1761, forty people met at this Presbyterian meeting 
 house to learn whether Jacob Spicer purchased the society rever- 
 sions at Cape May for himself, or for the people. 
 
 The third church, or the present beautiful structure, is called 
 " The brick church." It was erected in 1823. It was mainly planned 
 and pushed forward by the far-sighted, liberal and energetic Hon. 
 Thomas H. Hughes to successful completion. Dr. Samuel S. 
 Marcy and Judge Eli B. Wales, with others, also rendered especially 
 active and efficient service in its construction. When opposed by 
 some for planning so spacious a building, Mr. Hughes persevered, 
 saying, " My head will not be laid in the grave before this church 
 is full." And he lived to see his hopes and prophecy fulfilled. 
 
 This third and brick church was about a quarter of a century 
 afterwards nicely and expensively remodeled as to its pulpit, pews, 
 windows and general appearance, for the accomplishment of which 
 Dr. V. M. D. Marcy, Rev. Mr. Williamson, David Reeves and 
 others were efficient workers. Then again some few years ago it 
 was elegantly frescoed and recarpeted and otherwise improved. It 
 is in all respects as well said, " a beautifully fitted up building and 
 an honor to the community as well as to the denomination to which 
 it is attached." 
 
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 REV. DANIEL L. HUGHES, D. D. 
 
 [The following extended sketch, written by my beloved classmate 
 and college companion — the Rev. Hugh A. Brown, D. D., of Giff 
 Gaff, Charlotte county, Virginia — is transferred to these pages 
 from the Annual of Washington and Jefferson College, Pa., for 1890.] 
 
 " Daniel Lawrence Hughes, son of James Rainy and Eliza 
 (Eldredge) Hughes and grandson of Rev. Daniel Lawrence, one of 
 the early pastors of the Cold Spring, Cape May, Church, was born 
 at Cape May, N. J., on January 8, 1 820. He was the third of twelve 
 children — six sons and six daughters — of whom two other sons 
 became Presbyterian ministers, and three of the daughters wives of 
 Presbyterian ministers ; another son became a Ruling Elder, and 
 all the children professing Christians. Their father was a teacher^ 
 a Ruling Elder in the Cold Spring Church, and the organizer, and 
 for nearly half a century the superintendent, of its Sunday School. 
 Daniel in early boyhood expressed his wish to become a minister, 
 and in his fourteenth year was received into the full communion of 
 the church. He received his primary education in his father's 
 school ; then for two years he was under the tuition of his pastor, 
 Rev. Moses Williamson, beginning the study of Latin and Greek. 
 In the fall of 1835, in ^i^ sixteenth year, he entered the preparatory 
 department of Jefferson College. He was endowed with a vigorous 
 constitution and a sanguine temperament, and had an intense and 
 unwearied application to whatever he undertook. He was also 
 regular and systematic throughout his college course, and in after 
 life doing his work between the hours of five a. m. and ten p. m. His 
 mottoes were " Nil desperandum ;" " Perseverantia vincit omnia." 
 In college he was a diligent student and sustained the character of 
 a sincere and earnest Christian, according to that saying of Martin 
 Luther, " Bene orasse, est bene studuisse." He was an influential 
 member of the Franklin Literary Society, with reference to which 
 his classmate and fellow-member, Robert Patterson, once wrote to 
 him — Cujus pars magna fuisti. Upon his graduation, in the Fall 
 of 1840, Mr. Hughes entered Princeton Theological Seminary, 
 taking a full three years' course, at the close of which, in May, 1843 
 {having been licensed in April by the West Jersey Presbytery), 
 three fields of labor were open to him, one of which was the 
 
Cohocksink Church, Philadelphia, to which he was recommended 
 by Dr. Alexander. He accepted the call to Little Valley Church, 
 within the presbytery of Huntingdon, Pa., and began his work there 
 early in June. On the 19th of October he was married to Miss 
 Elmira W. Hughes, youngest daughter of Captain Humphrey 
 Hughes, of Cape Island, N. J. In January, 1844, he was ordained 
 and installed as pastor of Little Valley Church. Here he labored 
 successfully for five years, two of which he lived in Lewistown, 
 and had charge of the academy in that place. In 1848, Mr. Hughes 
 accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church of Spruce Creek 
 for the half of his time, the remainder being given to Pme Grove 
 Mills and Colerain Forges, and for nearly ten years he joyfully 
 labored in this field. At the spring meeting of presbytery in 1853, 
 calls for his services were presented from the First Church of 
 Altoona for two-thirds of his time, from Pine Grove Mills for half 
 his time, and from Sinking Valley for one-half. He accepted that 
 from Sinking Valley, continuing his connection with Spruce Creek, 
 giving also an afternoon service once a month at Tyrone, helping 
 towards the organization of the church there that in after years 
 became a prosperous congregation. 
 
 In the Spring of 1857, Mr. Hughes visited what was th-^n the 
 " Far West," the western parts of Iowa and eastern part of Nebraska, 
 and " his heart was greatly moved" in view of the religious destitu- 
 tion there. It had been his wish (providentially disappointed) to 
 go as a missionary to China along with his friends, Walter M. 
 Lowrie, John Lloyd, A. P. Happer, Hugh A. Brown and others. 
 The missionary spirit still stirred within him, and now, in view of 
 the wants of the home field, he seemed to hear the voice of the Lord 
 saying, " Whom shall I send ? And who will go for us ?" And he 
 replied, " Here am I ; send me," but praying, '' Except Thy presence 
 go with me, carry me not up hence." In October, 1857, he resigned 
 his beloved and loving Spruce Creek and Sinking Valley congre- 
 gations, gave up a beautiful parsonage home, and with a large 
 family and his household goods made his way via. St. Louis and 
 up the Missouri river, a journey of two thousand miles, with many 
 inconveniences and at a cost to himself of ^750, to his new field of 
 labor. Having located at Pacific City, Mills county, Iowa, near 
 the Missouri river, he immediately began the work of organizing 
 
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 and supplying churches and stations in the three counties of Mills 
 and Fremont, in Iowa, and of Cass, in the then Territory of 
 Nebraska, and occasionally in other counties, all in Council Bluffs 
 Presbytery. Here he labored with encouraging success, amidst 
 many hardships, for nearly seven years. To fill his appointments 
 in Nebraska he frequently crossed the Missouri river on the yield- 
 ing, cracking ice, feeling his way with a pole. During this period 
 Mr. Hughes received invitations to preach, as a candidate for 
 settlement, from eight different churches — four in the East and four 
 in the West. He at length accepted a call to labor in the two 
 counties of Polk and Warren, Iowa, represeuted by Des Moines 
 and Indianola. In 1864 he removed to Des Moines and took 
 charge of the First Church there and of the church at Indianola 
 and of the regions round about, and for the next six years, under 
 the calls and directions of the three presbyteries of Des Moines^ 
 Cedar, and Council Bluffs — including a successful pastorate of two 
 and a half years at Tipton and York Prairie, Cedar county, from 
 which he was called — he was engaged in visiting and helping to 
 build up all their vacant churches and organizing others all along 
 the new line of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad, from 
 Des Moines to Council Bluffs, at Dexter, Atlantic, Walnut, Avoca 
 and other places. 
 
 In June, 1870, Mr. Hughes went to Vinton, Benton county, Iowa, 
 and entered upon a large missionary work in Benton, Tama and 
 Black Hawk counties, within the bounds of Cedar Rapids and 
 Waterloo presbyteries. He here labored for the following seventeen 
 years amidst many destitutions, incessantly, early and late, in the 
 church and in the Sabbath school, and from house to house, until 
 his health failed. Thus closed a period of thirty busy, eventful 
 and successful years of ministerial (mostly missionary) labors — a 
 period marked by the usual lights and shades of ministerial and 
 missionary life. He has reason to know that " his labors were not 
 in vain in the Lord." Of not a few he is able to say, " Ye are my 
 joy and crown." Every church and missionary station where he 
 regularly officiated prospered, and he was always permitted to leave 
 them in a better condition than he found them ; while in every 
 field of labor he was favored with " times of refreshing from the 
 presence of the Lord ;" so that in them all the number of communi- 
 
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 cants was doubled or trebled, and be bas been instrumental in 
 bringing at least balf a dozen young men into the ministry. He 
 has built seven new houses of worship and remodeled and improved 
 three old ones. He has organized or helped to build up a score of 
 new churches, and as many successful Sabbath schools, and there 
 are now at least a dozen and a half ministers supplying those new 
 churches. Under all this wear and tear of nerve and muscle by 
 night and day, in sunshine and in storm, amidst the bleak winds 
 and long winters and sudden changes of that prairie region, his 
 health did at times well-nigh fail; but "the Lord healed all his 
 diseases and redeemed his life from destruction, and ofttimes 
 renewed his youth." His greatest trouble was from asthma, and 
 this at length compelled him to resort to a change of climate, but 
 not till another and greater affliction was sent upon him. On the 
 5th of October, 1886, at Traer, their home at that time, the beloved 
 wife of his youth and old age, who for forty-three years had stood 
 by his side, a faithful co-laborer and a patient sufferer, was called to 
 her heavenly home. She died in great peace and in the enjoyment 
 of a bright hope. They were blessed with eight children — four 
 sons and four daughters. Five are still living — two sons and three 
 daughters — all well educated, all bat one married, and all caring 
 for themselves. Dr. Hughes has also fifteen grandchildren. One 
 of his married daughters lives at Lake Charles, Louisiana. Visiting 
 her and finding no Presbyterian Church at that place, with charac- 
 teristic energy he set about having one established, and through 
 his timely encouragement the result has been the organization of a 
 church there in connection with the Southern Presbyterian body, 
 and the erection of a very commodious house of worship, in the 
 dedication of which, on a recent visit, he had the satisfaction of 
 taking part. After the death of his wife, and his own health failing 
 him again, he spent the winter of i886-'7 in his native air, at Cape 
 May, N. J. Here his health, in the kind providence of God, was 
 wonderfully improved, and in the Spring of 1887, he returned to 
 his old Presbytery of Huntingdon, which immediately appointed 
 him to supply the vacant churches of Petersburg and vicinity, which 
 he continues to do with encouraging success. 
 
 Besides his pastoral and missionary work. Dr. Hughes has been 
 influential and active in matters of education. In the beginning of 
 
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 his ministry he first for two years tauf^ht six young men privately. 
 He then for two }ears had charge of the Lewistown Academy, 
 and for one year was superintendent of public schools in his town- 
 ship. He was, after the death of Rev. J. Y. McGinnes, solicited to 
 take charge of the Shade Gap Academy, and at another time of the 
 " Mountain Female Seminary," both of which he declined. In Iowa 
 he was urged to take charge of the female seminary at Sidney. He 
 was a trustee and for a time financial agent (gratuitously, without 
 intermitting his other work) of Lenox Collegiate Institute, of which 
 he was afterwards offered the presidency. 
 
 Dr. Hughes has written a good deal for publication. In 1854 
 he wrote the life of Rev. J. Y. McGinnes, a duodecimo volume of 
 over 300 pages, of which an edition of 2,000 copies was disposed of 
 within three months. Both in Pennsylvania and in Iowa a variety 
 of sermons, addresses, and discussions of his have been published, 
 that were delivered on special occasions, and before various insti- 
 tutions. He has also written extensively for the religious and 
 secular newspapers — letters of travel and miscellaneous articles. 
 His latest work has been the preparation and delivery, last Autumn, 
 of an elaborate historical address, on the occasion of the one hundred 
 and seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Cold Spring 
 Church, Cape May, New Jersey. 
 
 Mr. Hughes also showed himself to be a public-spirited citizen 
 and "man of affairs." He helped to build a mile of the Council 
 Bluffs and St. Joe Railroad, by Pacific City, — the first railroad in 
 Western Iowa. For two years he was tax assessor for his town- 
 ship. He served as township clerk, school secretary, and school 
 treasurer. He became an extensive farmer, opening and improv- 
 ing several considerable farms, aggregating twelve hundred acres. 
 He introduced the cultivation of flax, and improved breeds of hogs 
 and cattle. He at one time became a large cattle-owner, selling 
 at one public sale over ^26,000 worth of "short horns." He was 
 gradually and almost insensibly drawn into these secubr engage- 
 ments without abating his usual ministerial work. One of his 
 ruling elders once said to Mrs. Hughes, "What your husband is 
 doing is enough to kill two men." The prospect of wealth seemed 
 to be opening before him, but there was a turn in his affairs in- 
 volving serious losses. Through these, and his own independent 
 
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 reflections, God at length showed him that he was consuming time 
 and energies in this way that ought to be devoted to his sacred 
 calling. He resolved to give it all up, at further, voluntary, and 
 great pecuniary sacrifice ; which he did in 1881, thenceforth devot- 
 ing himself exclusively to the work of the ministry. In view of his 
 experience in these matters he realizes the truth and force of 
 Whittier's lines in " Burning Driftwood : " 
 
 " Whatever perished with my ships, 
 I only know the best remains ; 
 A song of praise is on my lips 
 For losses which are now my gains." 
 
 That he maintained throughout that period of his life a conse- 
 crated spirit, is shown in that his custom always was to devote 
 from one-tenth to one-seventh of his income to religious and benev- 
 olent uses, and at one time, estimating his property at ;^io,ooo, he 
 set apart and within the month following gave one-tenth of that 
 principal, or ^1,000, to benevolent objects. 
 
 It will be seen that Dr. Hughes' life has been a very busy one — 
 his labors many, arduous, and constant — and to an eminent degree 
 successful and useful. The promise of youth, which was fair, has 
 been more than fulfilled. He has had gratifying proofs of divine 
 approval in the blessings that have attended his labors in the 
 gospel, and to a very satisfactory degree he has won the approval 
 and esteem of his fellow-men. The stated clerk of Waterloo Pres- 
 bytery, when he was leaving them, wrote : '• We are sorry to part 
 with you. No member of this presbytery would be more missed. 
 Your wise counsel and kindly spirit carried us through many a 
 difficulty, and it is wonderful that, with your asthma, you can do 
 so much." And, in writing to The Presbyterian, he says : " This 
 interesting field is now vacant. Rev. Daniel L. Hughes having 
 felt obliged by failing health to relinquish his work, it deserves as 
 good a pastor as it has lost. Better there could hardly be." The 
 Hon. Joseph Dysart, ex-Lieutenant Governor of Iowa, in his his- 
 tory of Dysart and vicinity, where Mr. Hughes labored for seven 
 years, says : " Mr. Hughes' career as a minister has been a check- 
 ered one — long and laborious. Endowed by nature with an iron 
 will, a physique remarkable for endurance, and a most equable 
 temperament, he has surmounted difficulties that but few of his 
 
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 fellow-mortals have confronted. His mind is well disciplined, his 
 memory tenacious and well stored with a fund of biblical and 
 secular knowledge. He is a good speaker, a ready writer, and a 
 controversialist that his foemen must respect." 
 
 It has been but a just recognition of Mr. Hughes' solid attain- 
 ments in theology, his ability as a preacher, and his long, arduous 
 and successful career in the ministry, that on the occasion of the 
 present commencement the trustees of Washington and Jefferson 
 College have conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of 
 Divinity. 
 
 Dr. Hughes is now in the 48th year of his ministry ar'd the 71st 
 year of his age; but, noting his erect figure, his firm step, his 
 vivacity of manner, his clear and strong voice and forcible delivery 
 in public speaking, one would hardly suspect that he had passed 
 the ordinary limit of human life." 
 
 I wish to record here my unwavering belief in the excellency of 
 the Calvinistic system of Faith. I have found during the 48 years 
 of my ministry nothing better. I have never failed to preach it in 
 high places or in low places. I have realized its effectiveness 
 everywhere. It is Divinely revealed in both the Old and the New 
 Testaments. Christ taught it. Paul taught it. And it has been 
 a living power ever since. It honors God, and humbles and saves 
 men. And this is the design and the result of true religion. All 
 is of grace. Our Pauhne Theology, our Calvanistic Faith, plainly 
 evolved from the word of God and logically based upon its teach- 
 ings — having as its healthy, safe, and long tried exponents, the 
 Westminster Confession of Faith with both its larger and shorter 
 Catechisms, and accompanied by its outline of Ecclesiastical 
 polity — is not a mere wishy-washy, milk and water, anything or 
 nothing establishment — a mere will-o'-the-wisp that is here or 
 there or yonder, as human applause or the popular speculations of 
 the day would make it : but it is intelligent, scriptural, positive, 
 and decided in its character. It is not even " wood, hay, or 
 stubble," it is the " gold, silver, and precious stones " — the onyx 
 and the sapphire — eternal truth, invaluable and imperishable. Its 
 price is above rubies. Says a late writer: "It is all nonsense 
 about Orthodox preaching being unpopular. The spirit of the age 
 
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 will no more modify the essential truths of Christianity than it will 
 modify the mountains. It may plant more fruits and flowers on 
 them, but they are unchangeable." 
 
 The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon says in the preface of one of his pub- 
 lished volumes of sermons : — " We have met with nothing- which 
 has shaken our faith in the ' good old paths' : but with many 
 things which have constrained us to cleave unto the word of the 
 Lord with fixed heart and determined spirit. Our ministry is a 
 testimony that no new theology is needed to stir the masses and 
 save souls. In every place where the old gospel has been pro- 
 claimed, it has had its trophies from the worst of men, and we are 
 no exception to the rule. The slain of the Lord have been many." 
 
 My health again so failed me in the Fall of 1890, that feeling it 
 necessary to retire from the active duties of the Ministry, with the 
 approval of Presbytery, I preached my last sermon at Petersburgh, 
 Pa., on December 28, 1890 — made arrangements to have my pul- 
 pits supplied until Spring — promised to make my full report to 
 Presbytery at its next meeting in April, 1891 — and designed to 
 spend the winter in a milder climate. 
 
 The Mountain Messenger, of Alexandria, Pa., in its issue of 
 December 1 890, says : " Dr. Hughes has given up his work, and is 
 about to retire from the ministry, after nearly forty-eight years of 
 faithful and untiring labor. The title 'Honorably Retired' is well 
 earned and worthily bestowed." 
 
 January 8, 189 1, was my 71st birthday. Some of my friends 
 seized this opportunity to get up a good dinner for me, and to in- 
 vite several of my ministerial, and other, friends to share the feast 
 with me. It was a good day, and a pleasant occasion. The Cape 
 May Wave, N. J., under date of January 10, 1891, has the follow- 
 ing to say about it — "Rev. Daniel L. Hughes has just closed his 
 pastorate with the Presbyterian Church at Petersburgh, Hunting- 
 don County, Pa., on account of asthmatic troubles. His many 
 friends took advantage of his early departure, and having knowl- 
 edge of his birthday occurring on Thursday last celebrated the 
 event by giving him a dinner. He has been held in great esteem 
 by the entire community, and leaves them to the regret of all." 
 I only exclaim with the Apostle: "By the grace of God I am 
 what I am." 
 
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 1 am a poor sinner, 
 
 And just nothing at all ; 
 But Jesus, the Saviour, 
 
 Is my " all and in all." 
 
 Just at this time I fell suddenly and seriously ill, lost my 
 strength, my appetite, and my voice, and was confined to the house, 
 under medical treatment, for the next two months ; so that I could 
 not go to Cape May, N. J., to regain my general health as I had 
 purposed to do. " Man proposes, but God disposes." *' It is not 
 in man that walketh to direct his steps. A man's heart deviseth 
 his way, but the Lord directeth his steps." In the great mercy of 
 the Lord, however, my health gradually improved, and on March 
 lOth, the day being favorable, I left Petersburgh at 8.20 A M.; 
 and arrived safely at Cape May City, N. J., the same day at 6.30 
 P. M. Since, that time my health has been here quite fully re- 
 stored again. The Cape May Wave, under date of April 4, 1891, 
 published the following : " Rev. Daniel L. Hughes has been here 
 at Cape May City now three weeks, and is greatly improved in 
 health. His cough and asthma seem to be entirely gone — his 
 medicines are laid aside — and his rheumatism, that he brought with 
 him, is better. This also he hopes will leave him as soon as the 
 weather becomes settled. He is busy daily in assisting the Wave 
 to get out his new book on Ancestral History, entitled, " God's 
 Covenant Fulfilled in Pious Households," which is expected to be 
 completed in a few weeks. The book is well spoken of as full of 
 interest and profit." 
 
 It is simply wonderful how that my native sea air restores me to 
 health, whenever in sickness I visit it. I can, with both gratitude 
 and joy, use the language of David : " Bless the Lord, O my soul, 
 and forget not all his benefits ; Who forgiveth all thine iniquities ; 
 Who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from de- 
 struction; Who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender 
 mercies ; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things, so that thy 
 youth is renewed like the eagle's." 
 
 I can appropriately use here a part of one of my favorite h}.Tnns : 
 
 "When trouble, like a gloomy cloud, 
 Has gathered thick, and thundered loud. 
 He near my soul has always stood ; 
 His loving-kindness, O ! how good ! 
 
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 Soon shall T pass the gloomy vale; 
 Soon all my mortal powers must fail ; 
 O ! may my last expiring breath, 
 His loving-kindness sing in death." 
 
 As I have always been deeply interested in Home Missions, and 
 have devoted to this cause the principal part of my life ; I deem it 
 not inappropriate, and I hope that it will be satisfactory to my 
 many relatives as also will help interest them afresh in the subject, 
 to append here the following address that I delivered immediately 
 after preaching a sermon from 2 Cor., 8:9 — in the Presbyterian 
 Church, at Cape May City, N. J., by invitation of its pastor, Rev. 
 C. A. Brewster, on Sabbath, March 6, 1887, and which was pub- 
 lished in the Star of the Cape March 18, 1887. 
 
 HOME MISSIONS. 
 
 Your pastor invited me, as an old missionary, to preach for you 
 to-day the annual sermon, and to say something in the behalf of 
 Home Missions. I do so with pleasure. The cause of Missions 
 is a grand one. It has its discouragements and trials, but it has 
 also its encouragements and triumphs. Our Lord Jesus Christ 
 was the first and greatest missionary. " God sent not His Son 
 into the world to condemn the world ; but that the world through 
 him might be saved," Jesus came from heaven to earth upon a 
 mission of love. He came to redeem us from all iniquity, and to 
 purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. He 
 came to restore us, as sinners, to the favor and image of God, and 
 to secure for us a heavenly inheritance and life everlasting. In 
 order to do it he gave us himself, his life, his all. And on the 
 cross he exclaimed, " It is finished." I love the cause of Missions. 
 To it I have devoted my life, my energies and my estate. And 
 now that my life is spared, and my voice is continued, I am ready, 
 as I have opportunity and ability, to speak in its behalf. And yet 
 in ray Home Missionary work for thirty years and more my heart 
 is sometimes so full of it, and my feelings so tender about it, that 
 as many incidents and associations impress themselves upon my 
 memory, I can scarcely speak of them without tears. Although 
 always partially engaged, more or less, in missionary work during 
 the first nearly fifteen years of my early ministry that I resided in 
 
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 Pennsylvania, yet in 1857, i^ order that I might engage in it 
 wholly, I resigned my charge there, and with a large family and 
 the most of our household goods removed via St. Louis and up the 
 Missouri River some 1500 to 2000 miles, amidst many inconveni- 
 ences in those early times, to the southwest border of Mills county, 
 sixteen miles south of Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the Missouri River, 
 at a personal cost of ^750. This river was the farthest Western 
 boundary of the United States. All beyond, then, to the Pacific ocean 
 was one wide waste of territory except for a few miles west of the 
 Missouri River, and here and there small and scattered improve- 
 ments. The first seven years I spent in the Council Bluffs Presbytery, 
 along the Missouri River ; the next six years I spent in the Des 
 Moines and Cedar Presbyteries, in the central part of the State ; and 
 the last seventeen years I spent in the Cedar Rapids and Waterloo 
 Presbyteries, in a more northerly part of the State, 
 
 You have Home Missions in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, 
 Indiana, Illinois, and other Northern and Southern States ; but I 
 shall briefly speak of the other half of our continent stretching 
 from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean — Iowa having been 
 admitted into the Union as a State on December 28, 1846, and the 
 only State then west of the Mississippi River except California, in 
 the far Southwest, admitted September 9, 1850. I might readily 
 spend an hour in telling you of the greatness of this work — in its 
 vast importance, the wide extent of its territory, its rich soil and 
 varied climate, its many destitutions, the numerous difficulties it 
 has to overcome because of the aboundings of worldliness and 
 error, the growing want of both men and means to carry it forward, 
 and its already glorious results. But this I cannot now do. Yet I 
 feel like pointing you in our text, 2 Cor., 8:9, to-day, to the noblest 
 example on record to stimulate you to self-denial, liberality, and 
 holy endeavors in behalf of this blessed cause. And I can testify 
 to you from my own experience and observation, as an eye-wit- 
 ness, that while I was in the West from 1857 to 1887 I saw the 
 vast masses of human beings with horse teams, mule teams, and ox 
 teams, as well as on railroads in later years, rush by in almost 
 ceaseless crowds to California, Pike's Peak, Oregon, and the varied 
 Territories — until nations seemed to be formed in a day. I have 
 seen State after State admitted into the Union. I have seen those 
 
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 wide and desolate Territories and new States spanned by rail- 
 roads — dotted over with thriving towns and cities, improved farms, 
 vast herds of all kinds, and factories of every description — and best 
 of all with schools, academies, and colleges, with temperance socie- 
 ties and Young Men's Christian Associations, and with Sabbath 
 schools and churches of all denominations in every direction. 
 While many revivals of religion and encouraging growth in both 
 temporal and spiritual things have been experienced all along the 
 slopes of the Rocky Mountains and the shores of the Pacific. 
 
 When I first went West I did not expect to remain there more 
 than ten years, and thought I would be more useful there during 
 those years in organizing and building up new churches in desti- 
 tute settlements than I would by remaining in a well established 
 church in the East. But I always found the work so constantly 
 widening in my hands that I never saw any just opportunity for 
 me to leave it. And it was only because my failmg health warned 
 me that it was dangerous for me to continue longer in my labors 
 and exposures amidst the severity of Iowa winters, that I was com- 
 pelled finally to resign my work there and seek a more congenial 
 climate in the place of my nativity, and for a time at least to be 
 laid aside from the active duties of the ministry. But the retro- 
 spect of the success of those labors, by the grace of God, is 
 pleasing. Besides all other rapid improvements that were made 
 all around, there are not less than a dozen and a half of ministers 
 who are now supplying those churches that I aided in organizing 
 and establishing. To God be the praise. This great work of Home 
 Missions has advanced from the beginning in all our New West (as 
 we may call it) not only three fold and four fold, but thirty fold, 
 sixty fold, and one hundred fold. Did time permit, it might be 
 easy to show this in Iowa, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, 
 Dakota, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, 
 Colorado, and California. The work also among the exceptional 
 populations, as they are termed, of the Mormons, the Indians, and 
 the Mexicans, is large, growing and imperative. This work, as 
 well as the schools among the freedmen and many of the poor 
 Southern whites, is mainly in charge of our noble Women's Execu- 
 tive Committee. 
 
 The cause of all this remarkable growth — next to the word and 
 
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 Spirit of God arousing his churches, in this missionary age, to re- 
 newed consecration to his service and to an increased effort to 
 rescue the perishing, and tlie earnest labors of his missionary serv- 
 ants on the field — are the wonderful providences of God in the 
 liberal provision made for securing fertile lands, the discoveries of 
 vast quantities of precious metals, the building of long lines of 
 railroads and telegraphs, the pouring into all these new regions of 
 our own people by the thousands with marvelous rapidity, and the 
 immigration therein of foreigners annually in almost countless 
 numbers, constituting in many places one-third or more of the en- 
 tire population. All this necessarily creates a constant demand 
 annually for more men and more money, in order to meet both the 
 wants of the situation and the respons.bilities that God has laid 
 upon his churches. 
 
 If our motto is "America for Christ," it is no wonder that the 
 cries reach us from every quarter, " Send us more men," " Come 
 over and help us." It is no wonder that our excellent Board of 
 Home Missions, in struggling to solve the mighty problem of how 
 to supply these surging masses of humanity with the saving gospel 
 of Christ, has incurred a debt. You need more men and more 
 money to meet the missionary demands in the East; but we need 
 them especially in the West, where society is in a forming state, 
 where destitutions are so large and so multiplied, and where early 
 and adapted effort will so soon be crowned richly with the Divine 
 blessing. "The great and vital interests of the church and of the 
 world are wrapped up in this missionary work. Everything that 
 we hold dear in social life, in civil government, in christian institu- 
 tions, in the spread of religion over the earth, so far as human in- 
 strumentalities are concerned, depends upon the way we preach 
 the Gospel in these rapidly growing communities." — (Minutes 
 G, A., p. 40}. There are great perils before us as a nation if we 
 neglect here to do our duty. Political power to control the gov- 
 ernment is fast centering in the West, and hence the great import- 
 ance of having it religiously educated and leavened with the Spirit 
 and grace of God. Our civil as well as our social and religious 
 condition, then, as a nation, bid us as christians without delay, and 
 with heart and purse, to " stand up for Jesus." At the same [time, 
 I am positively of the opinion that if — under the free and liberal 
 
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 provisions of our government for the safety and comfort of all its 
 citizens — foreigners, who come to America to better their condi- 
 tion, instead of being obedient to our laws and helping to maintain 
 our well established institutions, shall attempt to subvert them by 
 destroying our Bibles and Sabbaths, upholding the deadly liquor 
 traffic and the lowest forms of human life connected with it, en- 
 couraging Anarchy, riot and blood shed, thus sapping the very 
 foundations of our government — then, in order to its own self- 
 preservation, if these people will not be and cannot be American- 
 ized and christianized, our government must either expatriate 
 gross offenders, or mete out to them the full penalty of the law for 
 their revolutionary conduct ; or it will be compelled eventually to 
 limit, if not to forbid altogether, such immense immigrations, 
 
 Missionaries themselves not only go far hence from friends and 
 all the endearments and attractions of well regulated religious so- 
 ciety, to endure the toils, privations, and exposures, of new settle- 
 ments and frontier life ; and often to preach in every direction 
 without any pecuniary return from the people ; but they also, even 
 amidst the pinchings of poverty from their small and uncertain 
 salaries, cheerfully give of their income annually that the waste 
 places in Zion may be supplied, precious souls saved, Christ hon- 
 ored, and our country preserved and blessed. Is it too much, then, 
 to expect that christians at home, in more favored localities and 
 amidst pleasant surroundings, shall, out of their abundance and 
 comfort, minister to the necessities of their brethren in the Lord, 
 who, as above stated, are willing to spend and to be spent far 
 away in their blessed Master's service? It is not poverty but in- 
 difference that cripples our energies in the benevolent work of the 
 church. And let me add, that if as a church you will be dis- 
 tinguished for your missionary character, next to your strong ad- 
 herence to the doctrines of grace, you will occupy the very highest 
 position. The great commission of Christ to all his disciples is to 
 spread everywhere saving gospel truth. He says, " Go ye into all 
 the world and preach the gospel to every creature." Some must 
 go in person, and some must go by their contributions, and all 
 must go with their faith and prayers. Two hundred ministers and 
 teachers, well prepared, are needed this Spring to supply the waste 
 places of our Zion. And our General Assembly has recommended 
 
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 the churches under its care to raise In the support of this grand 
 work the sum of ^750,000 this year, which closes on the 31st day 
 of this present month (March, 1887). 
 
 Permit me, in closing, to ask who of you here to-day that shall 
 hear the Lord's question, "Whom shall I send" into this great 
 harvest field? will answer, " Here am I, send me?" And who of 
 you here to-day, young and old, will help raise, according to his 
 several ability and as God hath prospered you the above men- 
 tioned sum as needed and as recommended by our General 
 Assembly ? Will not every one of you say " I will ?" From what 
 I know, personally, of our Board of Home Missions, I can cor- 
 dially commend its fidelity and energy to you for your liberal sup- 
 port and your fervent prayers for its enlarged usefulness in its 
 noble work of helping save our beloved land. 
 
 MRS. ELMIRA WILLIAMS HUGHES. 
 
 The GRAND-PARENTS of Elmira W. Hughes, the wife of Rev. 
 Daniel L. Hughes, on her father's side were Humphrey hughes 
 (who died at sea while her father was a child) and Jane Whillden 
 Hughes, the daughter of James Whillden, and an own sister to 
 *' Uncle " Matthew Whillden, one of the oldest and most godly 
 ruling elders in the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, Cape May 
 County, N. J. Their only child was Humphrey Hughes. After 
 her husband's death Mrs. Jane W. Hughes married Jeremiah Ed- 
 munds, and had three children, Elizabeth, Mahala, and Jeremiah 
 Edmunds. 
 
 Her GRAND-PARENTS on her mother's side were William 
 Williams of Loudon County, Virginia, son of David and Ann 
 Williams, and Abigail Collings Williams, daughter of Richard 
 and Hetty Zanes Collings of Gloucester County, N. J. They were 
 married July 24, 1779, by William Smith, D.D„ Prov. of the College 
 of Philadelphia. Their only child was Hetty Williams. William 
 Williams was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army, a brave and 
 skilful officer of considerable fame He was a brother of Lieutenant 
 David Williams of Virginia, who was killed at the battle of Co wpens 
 South Carolina. 
 
 Abigail C. Williams, his wife, was born February 10, 1759, and 
 
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 Hied February 24, 1847, aged eighty-eight years and fourteen days. 
 She was a remarkable woman, naturally possessed of a vigorous 
 mind and that well cultivated. She was far-sighted, catching often 
 by Iser sagacity and dreams a glimpse of coming events, had an 
 excellent memory, and was a great reader, keeping up with all the 
 current events of her time, political, secular, and religious. She 
 was quite wealthy and moved in the best of society. Her history 
 as connected with the Zanes and Collings,as well as Williams families 
 is full of interest, and stirring incident. She was a devout and 
 liberal-minded Christian, using her intelligence, piety, and wealth 
 to advance the best interests of society and the church. She was 
 a great Bible reader, and would often at one sitting read one or 
 more of its books through consecutively ; while she read the whole 
 Bible through some forty times during her life. Possessed of much 
 information on a variety of subjects she was an entertaining com- 
 panion and an instructive conversationalist. Especially in her 
 advanced years, did the children and youth love to gather in her 
 room and Hsten to her recitals of Bible stories and historical narra- 
 tives. In her later years she married Methuselah Davis, who also 
 died before she did, her property became somewhat reduced, and 
 the remainder she divided wisely before her death among her heirs. 
 Upon receiving the news of her death, her grand-daughter, Elmira 
 W. Hughes, residing in Little Valley, Pa., thus wrote in her 
 Diary — "March 2, 1847, yesterday I heard of the death of my 
 beloved grand-mother. I can scarcely realize that she is gone. 
 There is a vacancy made on earth which can never be filled ; but 
 we have one more tie in heaven. O 1 that we all may be prepared 
 to meet her there. How thankful should we be that she retained 
 her faculties until the last. She said shortly before she died, — 'If 
 I know of anything in heaven or on earth that I love, it is — that 
 dear Lamb of God ' — a term which she generally applied to the 
 Saviour. I never knew the depth of my love for her until I heard 
 of her removal. She was a remarkable woman both for her intel- 
 lectual and moral powers. She had such a pleasant way of intro- 
 ducing religion into every day conversation, that even those who 
 were not serious would be pleased rather than offended, and christ- 
 ians were edified. Had her opportunities when young been equal 
 to her talents she would have been even more brilliant in the in- 
 
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 tellectual world. I dislike exaggerated praises of the dead, but I 
 know that without exaggeration, there were few like her." 
 
 The PARENTS of Elmira W, Hughes were Capt. Humphrey 
 Hughes, the only child of Humphrey and Jane Whillden Hughes, 
 and Hetty Williams Hughes, the or.ly child of Lieutenant 
 William Williams and Abigail Collings Williams. They were married 
 March 9, 1800. Her father was born November 20, 1775, and died 
 August 21, 1858, aged eighty two years, nine months and one day. 
 He led a sea-faring life, and was master of his business. 
 
 He was a large man, of fine appearance, weighing two hundred 
 pounds, and had a pleasant disposition and an accommodating 
 spirit. He had a large experience of ocean-life, traveled exten- 
 sively to various sea-ports, and " all over the world" as he used to 
 say. He often had command of large vessels that were freighted 
 with very valuable cargoes worth hundreds of thousands of do lars, 
 that he had to dispose of and account for. But he was a man of 
 sterling integrity, and secured both the confidence and the respect 
 of his employers. For many years he was appointed by the Gov- 
 ernment of the United States as the Captain or Superintendent of 
 the Government Light Ship on the Five Fathoms Bank, south of 
 Cape May, New Jersey. He retained this position until his age 
 and infirmities required his resignation. 
 
 In his earlier years in going to Virginia, to look after some 
 property that belonged to him and to his family, through the 
 Williams' estate, he met with a serious accident in getting out ot 
 the stage coach by breaking a blood vessel, which was a source ot 
 trouble to him ever afterwards, and which led him to give up his 
 intended visit and to return home. Before his death he united 
 with the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church on profession of his 
 faith in Christ, and died peacefully in a good old age, and was 
 buried in the Cold Spring Cemetery, 
 
 His wife, Hetty Williams Hughes, was born December 14, 1781, 
 and died February 4, 1870, aged eighty-eight years, one month, 
 and twenty days. Like her mother she was a remarkable and de- 
 cided woman. She had a strong mind, an excellent judgment, M'as 
 industrious, active, and enterprising, a great Bible and newspaper 
 reader, intelligent upon the prominent questions of the day before 
 the State and the Church, and was withal a devoted and consistent 
 
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 christian. She loved the house of God, the prayer meeting, and 
 the Missionary cause, and was ahvays by her presence and purse 
 ready to help them forward. As her husband in his sea-faring life 
 was necessarily absent very much from home, the training and care 
 of her large family almost entirely devolved upon her. And in a 
 highly successful degree did she meet all these heavy responsi- 
 bilities. Her wisdom, energy, and financial executive ability, in 
 answer to her strong faith in God and constant prayer for his 
 guidance and help, enabled her to triumph over her greatest diffi- 
 culties, and to train up her sons and daughters so as to have 
 standard characters and to be prepared to occupy responsible and 
 useful stations in life. Two of the sons became reliable pilots. 
 One daughter married a ruling elder in the Cold Spring Presby- 
 terian Church ; another married its pastor ; and the next and 
 youngest married one of its sons, also a Presbyterian minister. 
 She said to me once, " God is better than our fears." She died, 
 hopefully and trustingly, in the Cold Spring Presbyterian Parson- 
 age, at her daughter's — Mrs. Emily H. Williamson — and was laid 
 tenderly to rest beside her departed husband in the old cemetery. 
 She believed in God that all her children would be saved. 
 
 The children of Capt. Humphrey and Hetty W. Hughes were the 
 following nine : — Infant daughter died nameless, Louisa Williams, 
 Joseph Eastburn, Albert Henry, Isaac Collings, Emily Hurst, 
 Elmira Williams, Humphrey, and Charles Pinckney. Of these, 
 three only are now living — Albert H., Humphrey, and Charles P. 
 
 Louisa Williams Hughes, the second child, was born January 
 9, 1806: was married to Enoch Edmunds, of Fishing Creek, Cape 
 May county, N. J., July 16, 1822; had three children, Louisa H., 
 Elizabeth S., and Enoch; and died August 21, i860, aged fifty- four 
 years, seven months and twelve days. She was an intelligent, 
 active, and devoted Christian, but an invalid for many ^ears. Enoch 
 Edmunds, her husband, was born in 1799, and died March 30, 
 1867, aged sixty-eight years. He was a farmer, diligent, affable, 
 honest, and public spirited. He became the popular Manager 
 for many years of the steamboat business from the (7ape May 
 Point landing to Cape May City ; and was also a punctual and 
 faithful ruling Elder in the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church 
 for nearly sixteen years. He married, as his second wife. Miss 
 
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 Mary Miller, of Green Creek. She was born May 15, 1804, and 
 died July 23, 1883, aged seventy-nine years, two months, and eight 
 days. Her obituary notice says : — " Mrs. Edmunds was born in 
 Cape May County and lived here all her life. At an early age she 
 united with tlie Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, and ever main- 
 tained a consistent christian life. An invalid for many years, she 
 spent her time in quiet seclusion from the world, ministering to 
 others of her substance and doing good as she had opportunity. 
 Though having no children, she cared for the children of others. 
 Enduring patiently to the end, she departed in peace and has gone 
 to her rest — the reward of the righteous, 
 
 " Lie down, frail body, here 
 Earth has no fairer bed, 
 No gentler pillows to afford — 
 Come, rest thy homesick head." 
 
 Joseph Eastburn Hughes the third child was born December i, 
 1809, and died May 3, 18 10, aged five months and two days. 
 
 Albert Henry Hughes^ the fourth child, was born January 8, 
 1812; and was married first to Miss Elizabeth Schellenger, of Cape 
 Island, March 9, 1 839. She was born May 7, 1 8 1 7, and died April 14, 
 1844, aged twenty-six years, eleven months, and seven days. They 
 had three children—Abigail Collings, Jane Schellenger, and Elizabeth 
 Schellenger. Mr. Hughes married second^ Miss Mary Whitaker 
 Pierson, of Cold Spring, May 6, 1845. She was born March 26, 181 7, 
 and has been a prudent and faithful wife and mother, and is esteemed 
 by all. They are both decided and consistent members of the Presby- 
 terian Church, as are also the children of both families. This marriage 
 was blessed with two children, Henry Albert and Hetty Williams. 
 
 Albert H. has been a reliable and successful Cape May and Dela- 
 ware Bay Pilot; and with his good judgment and safe investments 
 has secured a competent portion of the good things of this life, and 
 enjoys God's blessing with them. As a sea-faring life is one of the 
 regular occupations of the citizens of Cape May County, N. J., they 
 are often exposed to great dangers, and are often found in perilous 
 situations. " They that go down to the sea in ships, that do busi- 
 ness in great waters ; these see the works of the Lord, and his 
 wonders in the deep. For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy 
 wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. They mount up to the 
 
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 heavens, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted 
 because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a 
 drunken man, and are at their wit's end. Then they cry unto the 
 Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their dis- 
 tresses." — Ps. 107:23-28. One exciting scene of this character, 
 only, will I here record, that occurred while I was at Cape May 
 City during the winter of 1887, and which was published in the 
 Star of the Cape, March 18, 1887 — and is as follows : 
 
 ADRIFT AT SEA. 
 
 PILOT I. PUTNAM HUGHES ADRIFT IN AN OPEN BOAT IN THE DARK- 
 NESS OF NIGHT. HIS PROVIDENTIAL RESCUE. 
 
 It was on Monday afternoon that the Pilot Boat, E. C. Knight, 
 upon which cruise a number of our Cape May pilots, ran in under 
 the beach to send her skilT ashore with several of the men who re- 
 side in this city. Completing their errand they returned to the 
 ship, and pilots Putnam Hughes, his brother, Warren Hughes, 
 Alfonso Bennett, Harry S. Fldredge, with the Captain, Joseph 
 Springer, arranged to return to the shore, desiring to attend the 
 revival meeting in the M. E. Church, of which most of them are 
 members, leaving Frank S. Eldredge and Wm. T. Eldredge on 
 board, and rowing themselves to the iron pier, their annual landing 
 place. When they reached the pier it was nearly dark. The wind 
 was blowing almost a gale from the northwest and the sea was very 
 rough, beating the boat about violently as she lay at the pier .while 
 the men were scrambling out, one after the other. All had reached 
 the platform but Mr. Hughes when the "painter" slipped, and 
 before it could be recovered the horrible fact was realized that 
 Hughes was powerlessly adrift It was a terrible situation, and 
 Mr. Hughes' heart sank within him as he found himself unable to 
 regain the pier, and drifting rapidly out upon the wild waves into 
 the closing darkness. He knew not what his comrades would do 
 or could do to attempt his rescue. Those on board the Knight 
 knew nothing of his terrible predicament, and he doubted if his 
 companions could procure and launch another boat, or possibly 
 reach the Knight and give the alarm. 
 
 Amid the wildest excitement the pilots searched the strand for a 
 surf boat, but only an old skiff was found. The alarm reached but 
 
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 a comparatively few. Woman, ever ready to aid in succoring those 
 in distress, found a place for action in this emergency. Mrs. 
 Quidort and Mrs. Capt. Sooy were alone at the residence of the 
 former, and hastily procured oars that were upon the premises, and 
 nobly aided in dragging the boat to the raging surf. No time was 
 to be lost. The life of a dear comrade, a neighbor, a friend, was 
 at stake. Heroically three of the brave men, Warren Hughes. 
 Harry Eldredge and Capt. Springer, put out in the old skiff. All 
 must not go, as they might never reach the ship in the rickety 
 boat. At last, after a hard pull they cleared the breakers, reached 
 the ship and gave the alarm. Blackness of darkness had settled 
 down over the waters, and more than one " God help us " was 
 uttered as they got under weigh and let the good ship Knight scud 
 before the wind under bare poles, keeping her as near the direc- 
 tion, off and on, as the drifting boat must have taken. They had 
 cruised in this way nearly a half an hour, watching, listening for 
 calls to reach them over the waves. There was no sign of the lost 
 one, and they halted in their course. What more could be done 
 they knew not, but after a httle pilot Frank Eldredge said, "We 
 will not give him up yet," and again they put her out before the 
 wind and rounded up to listen — see they could not, and — hark ! a 
 voice, a call, far out on the waters, between them and the shore. 
 They had got beyond him. A wild shout went up ; " God direct 
 us !" was now the prayer which went heavenward, and ere long the 
 helm answered to its last test and the little boat and its lone occu- 
 pant were within reach. Worn out with bailing and rowing, his 
 nervous system almost prostrated from the strain, he was taken on 
 board, embraced over and over again, while tears fell and thanks- 
 givings went up from hearts to Him who had directed them and 
 answered their prayers. It was nearly ten o'clock that night when 
 they landed upon the beach and told the exciting story to many 
 eager listeners. It was a narrow escape from an awful death, and 
 everywhere the hero of the incident appeared his hand was clasped, 
 even hardy men would throw their arms about him while tears 
 would trickle down their cheeks and mingle with his. Mr, Hughes 
 is a man beloved in the church and by the community, and the re- 
 joicing at his providential rescue partook almost of a public 
 character. 
 
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 " It was one chance in a thousand " said Frank Eldredge, and 
 Mr. Hughes himself declares that " Nothing but God's answer to 
 prayer could have directed the vessel." 
 
 Isaac Collings Hughes, the fifth child, was born April 13, 18 14, 
 and died June 8,1815, aged one year, one month and twenty-six days. 
 
 Emily Hurst Hughes, the sixth child, was born November 19, 
 1817; and died at her residence in Cape May City on Tuesday, 
 December 18, 1888, at 9.20 P. M. of paralysis of the brain, aged 
 seventy-one years, and twenty-nine days. She was married Septem- 
 ber 1 5 , 1 834, to Rev. Moses Williamson, the pastor of the Cold Spring 
 Presbyterian Church, whose death preceded her's about eight years. 
 
 Mrs. Williamson's life was one of early piety, self-denial, con- 
 sistency, labor, usefulness, and approval. Her death was calm and 
 peaceful. The published obituary of her says ; — " The deceased 
 was a woman whose quiet ways made friends of all. She was an 
 active and very industrious woman up to a few days of her death. 
 She was truly a good woman, whose soul now rests from worldly 
 care in that land where dwell the spirits of loved ones goue before. 
 Several daughters and a son mourn the loss of a most devoted 
 mother." 
 
 Rev. Moses Williamson, her husband, was born in Newville, 
 Pa., May 7, 1802, and died October 30, 1880, aged seventy-eight 
 } ears, five months, and twenty-three days. He was for nearly 
 forty-four years the beloved and efficient pastor of the Cold Spring 
 Presbyterian Church, Cape May, New Jersey. If any should de- 
 sire to read an extended sketch of his life, character, and labors, I 
 would refer them to pages 12-15 o^ ^^ Historical Address I de- 
 livered at Cape May, September 26, 1889, on the 175th Anniver- 
 sary of the Origin of the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, and 
 published by the Editor of the Cape May Wave. 
 
 Humphrey Hughes, the eighth child, was born at Cape Island, 
 N. J., May 2, 1822. He married Eliza Eldredge, of Cold Spring, 
 N. J., December 31, 1846, and had two children — Adrian B. and 
 Harriet E. — as recorded above under the history of his wife. He 
 was a reliable Cape May and Delaware River Pilot, and also owned 
 the Tremont House in Cape May City and run it as a Boarding 
 
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 House for a number of years during the summer season. He was 
 always popular and accommodating in his management, — his nat- 
 ural disposition being kind, generous, and friendly : but since his 
 wife met with the great affliction of losing her eyesight, he has 
 found it necessary to rent his house, and he and his wife make 
 their home in it. His health has been of late years quite feeble, 
 but until last fall he continued, as he was able, his occupation as a 
 Pilot. 
 
 Charles Pinckney Hughes, the ninth and youngest child of 
 Captain Humphrey and Hetty W. Hughes, was born at Cape 
 Island, N. J., June 26, 1826. He received his education at Cape 
 May, and at the Tuscarora Academy, Pa. His health, however, 
 became so infirm that he was compelled to discontinue his regular 
 studies and to return home. He has always been strictly temper- 
 ate in all his habits, and from his youth up until now he has been 
 a kind, conscientious, and consistent christian. He is unmarried ; 
 and although, because of unsound health, he could not undertake 
 any regular and steady employment, yet he tries always in some 
 way to be useful. He has a comfortable income for his annual 
 support, and has for many years resided at Townsend's Inlet, Cape 
 May County, N. J. 
 
 It would be interesting and profitable to write out in detail a full 
 history of all the family connections on my wife's side — of the 
 Hughes', Whillden's, WilHams', Collings', Edmunds', and William- 
 son's, with all their respective families; but this is outside the plan 
 or scope of my present effort, and I therefore omit it. 
 
 Elmira W. Hughes was the seventh child of Capt. Humphrey 
 and Hetty W. Hughes, and became the beloved wife of Rev, 
 Daniel L. Hughes. She was born at Cape Island, Cape May 
 County, N. J., January i, 1820; and died at Traer, Tama County, 
 Iowa, October 5, 1886, aged sixty-six years, nine months, and four 
 days — after being confined to her bed nearly eight weeks by gen- 
 eral debility, from a chronic cough that she had patiently endured 
 for twenty-five years. She was buried in the cemetery at Vinton, 
 Iowa. On her monument is inscribed the comprehensive eulogy — 
 " Faithful unto death." It is impossible for me to write the sketch 
 of her hfe as a dry and unmeaning thing. I feel that I must pour 
 
out the wealth of my heart, next to that of my dear Saviour, in her 
 behalf We were born together — in the same month, the same 
 year, and the same vicinity; grew up together — being baptized in 
 infancy at the same time, in the same church and by the same 
 minister, attending the same schools, and under the same teachers^ 
 and uniting with the same church and at the same time in our 
 fourteenth year ; and lived together in the strongest ties of mutual 
 affection, as husband and wife, for forty-three years, until separated 
 for a brief period by her earlier death. 
 
 We harmonized nicely in our general views, feelings, and 
 methods of effort. And we lived, and labored, and prayed together 
 for our own good, for the good of all our children, and for the up- 
 building of the Redeemer's Kingdom in all the world. Our lives 
 seemed to run almost entirely parallel on earth, and in death we 
 cannot be long divided. We shall soon be reunited in the " better 
 country " in more perfect bonds than ever ; and shall together 
 there, clothed in white robes, delight forever to praise our divine 
 Redeemer, and strive to execute all his holy will. 
 
 " Then let us forbear to complain, 
 Because she is gone from our sight ; 
 We shall soon behold her again, 
 With new, and redoubled delight." 
 
 While those who remain may repeat the appropriate stanza : — 
 
 " With us her name shall live. 
 Through long succeeding years ; 
 Embalmed with all our hearts can give, 
 Oar praises and our tears. 
 
 Elmira W. after completing her studies at the Cold Spring, Cape 
 May, Academy, pursued other and higher branches in select schools 
 in Philadelphia. She then engaged in teaching, and was a suc- 
 cessful teacher until she married. She was useful in life, and 
 peaceful in death. The following obituary notice of her is taken 
 from the Star-Clipper, Traer, Iowa, of October 8, 1886. 
 
 A NOBLE LIFE CLOSED. 
 « 
 
 One of the noblest lives with which it has ever been our profit 
 to come in contact — that of Mrs. D. L. Hughes — closed last Tues- 
 day evening. The end was expected by herself and family, as she 
 
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 had been steadily declining for several weeks. It was the close of 
 a perfect life, just at the close of a perfect day. Let us look at the 
 story of the I'fe, hastily prepared : 
 
 Elmira Williams Hughes was born January i, 1820, at Cape 
 May, New Jersey. She was dedicated publicly to God in infancy 
 by her pious mother in baptism, and she was prayerfully trained 
 up for Jesus. She never knew when she was without convictions. 
 They were so deep in her early childhood that she wished she had 
 been born a heathen so that she might have escaped the heavy re 
 sponsibility that rested upon her in deciding to be a christian. She 
 had very early an intense desire to be a christian. In her four- 
 teenth year she made an intelligent profession of her faith in Christ 
 and united with the Presbyterian Church of Cold Spring, Cape 
 May County, New Jersey, under the pastoral care of her brother- 
 in-law. Rev. Moses Williamson. She loved the bible, secret prayer, 
 the church and Sabbath school, and above all her dear Lord and 
 Saviour. She now at once consecrated herself unreservedly to the 
 Lord and became a worker in his vineyard. She taught in the 
 Sabbath school, often led the smging in the Sabbath school and in 
 the prayer meeting, and was a prominent member of the choir of 
 the church. She started the first missionary society in the Sab- 
 bath school at her native place. Cape Island, N. J., which we 
 believe has continued until now, and she carried out this mission- 
 ary spirit in prayer, word and deed in all her after life. She was a 
 successful teacher in her own private day school and in the Cape 
 May academy, and thus helped train up many for usefulness who 
 have called her "blessed." On October 19, 1843, she was joined 
 in marriage to Rev. Daniel L. Hughes, a few months after his 
 graduation from the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J. 
 Their united desire at first was to go as foreign missionaries to 
 China in company with such beloved brethren as Revs. Lowrie, 
 Happer, Culbertson, Lloyd and Brown, But her frail health rend- 
 ering it impracticable, they next determined to devote their lives 
 to the home missionary work, as God in his providence might 
 direct. This purpose, with its various lights and shades of mis- 
 sionary life, they have been enabled through Divine grace to carry 
 out for the past forty-three years. In all these missionary labors 
 Mrs. Hughes was always ready cheerfully to do or bear her part 
 
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 according to her ability. It can be said of her as of one in Bible 
 times : " She hath done what she could." She was always a co- 
 worker with her husband in carrying forward Sabbath schools^ 
 Bible classes, prayer meetings, missionary societies and pastoral 
 work, as also in encouraging him to faithful pulpit labor. She was 
 always willing to give of her substance too, as well as to pray, for 
 the advancement of the kingdom of her blessed Redeemer. She 
 was a diligent reader, not only of the Bible, but of the choicest and 
 best books by human authors, such as those of Baxter, Doddridge, 
 Edwards, Owen, as also of our best modern writers. She kept up 
 with the current literature of the day, and was always ready to 
 every good word and work. She was an intelligent, conscientious 
 and devoted christian ; yet she was always afraid of mere theory,, 
 or insincerity and deception about religion, and eschewed anything 
 like show or self-praise about her religious attainments, and desired 
 only that the grace of God might in her case be magnified. She 
 held firmly in her religious belief to the doctrinal standards and 
 ecclesiastical polity of the Presbyterian Church. She was the 
 mother of eight children, five of whom — two sons and three daught- 
 ers — with her aged husband and eleven grand-children survive to 
 mourn their loss. She was a good wife and a faithful mother as 
 well as a devoted christian. " Her children arise up and call her 
 blessed ; her husband also, and he praiseth her." " Favor is de- 
 ceitful and beauty is vain ; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she 
 shall be praised." Mrs. Hughes was gifted with considerable 
 poetic taste and talent, and from her earliest years to the close of 
 her long, eventful and useful life, many of her compositions were 
 acceptable to both her friends in private and to the religious press, 
 and often they were said to be beautiful. Her health since child- 
 hood has been frail, but during the last twenty-five years she has 
 been almost a constant sufferer from a chronic bronchial cough 
 and imperfect digestion. Yet such were always her ambition, 
 energy and conscientiousness that she would waste no time, neglect 
 no duty and yield to no pressure unless from positive necessity. 
 Her death was as her life. She struggled to do her duty in pre- 
 serving her life and to keep up her strength to the very last. Once 
 she said to her husband : " I am very weak." He replied that 
 couplet is sweet — "When I am weak, then am I strong; Grace 
 
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 IS my shield and Christ my song." She said she had been call- 
 ing to her mind several precious passages of scripture, and that 
 Jesus never before seemed so tender and loving. Her husband re- 
 plied, '' He is our all in all." Again telling her that he was going 
 to write to her older sister that day, October i, she said : " Give 
 her my lovp and tell her I am near home." She continued in her 
 full mind during all her last eight weeks' special sickness with 
 resignation, patience, trust and hope. On Sabbath afternoon, Oc- 
 tober 3, she struggled heroically for breath and life. She said : 
 " Give me air. I want all the air that I can get." The windows 
 and doors were immediately thrown open and her bed placed 
 directly in front of the current. She was then fanned hard for two 
 hours. God was pleased that pleasant Sabbath afternoon to send 
 us a strong and most delightful western wind. As she breathed it 
 she exclaimed : " How sweet to breathe God's air ! O how de- 
 lightful that breath !" On Monday afternoon in taking leave of 
 her children that were present there was a most tender and im- 
 pressive scene. She threw her frail arms around them, expressed 
 her deep love for them and then gave them each a most wise, pious 
 and appropriate exhortation to live above the world and for Jesus 
 and heaven — telling them to read the Bible daily, saying it had 
 been her chart in life and was now her support in death, and to 
 keep up religion in the family and in the church. All this she 
 said in a distinct and earnest voice which just before was almost 
 inarticulate. They felt that this was the last work of her life and 
 that God had given her special strength for it. She had been use- 
 ful and glorified God during a long life, and now she bore her 
 testimony for Jesus, and to the value of true religion in her death — 
 and her work on earth was finished. After this she was exhausted 
 and speechless and quietly rested. On Tuesday forenoon, Octo- 
 ber 5, although apparently speechless, yet her husband thinking 
 that while he was talking she understood it, which she said she did, 
 he asked her : " Can you rest on Jesus ?" She replied distinctly, 
 " O yes." He again asked " Is Jesus all your hope ?" She re- 
 plied faintly, '" All my hope." These were her last words. He 
 then said " Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his 
 saints." She then after a few convulsive efforts between life and 
 death with closed eyes lay for six hours calm and motionless ex- 
 
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 cept her heavy breathing which grew constantly less until at 5.30 
 P. M., just as the bright sun was setting, at the age of sixt>^-six 
 years, nine months, and five days, she sweetly fell asleep in Jesus 
 to awake in his likeness and to behold him as the sun of righteous- 
 ness in glory. Those of her relatives and friends who are left 
 behind mourn her absence ; but she was ripe for glory, and their 
 earthly loss is her eternal, unspeakable gain. She rests from her 
 labors, and her works do follow her. 
 
 No one can estimate the good such lives as that so peacefully 
 closed accomplish in the world. Mankind is bettered by them. 
 Christianity is strengthened. Noue but a christian can pass so 
 many years of suffering with such fortitude. It seems that Prov- 
 idence designed that her mind should not be weakened by physi- 
 cal frailty, that the christian graces might be exemplified and His 
 xause be aided. 
 
 The funeral service was preached by Rev. J. S. Dickey, at the 
 Congregational Church yesterday at 3 P. M., and the service was 
 largely attended. He spoke from the text : " Precious in the sight 
 of the Lord is the death of His saints." The body was taken on 
 the evening passenger train to Vinton, and interred in the ceme- 
 tery there. Rev. E. H. Avery conducting a short service. 
 
 We cannot close this article better than to append the following 
 beautiful lines on the subject of death, written by Mrs. Hughes 
 some time ago : 
 
 I know 'tis better to depart 
 
 But how, or when, or where 
 Shall cease the throbbings of my heart, 
 
 I need not, should not care. 
 
 The spoiler may with secret smart, 
 
 As slowly work, as sure ; 
 Or with keen eye, and well-aimed dart, 
 
 Defy attempts to cure. 
 
 It may be when my hopes are bright, 
 
 And joy a constant guest, 
 Or when a host of ills unite 
 
 To make the soul depressed. 
 
 It may be in my much-loved home, 
 
 While friends surround my bed ; 
 Or by the way. or where I roam. 
 
 The arrow shall be sped. 
 
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 Since he who wrought this mortal frame, 
 
 And gave the living soul 
 The means, the time, the place, doth name. 
 
 At His supreme control. 
 
 I'd trust His wisdom and His love, 
 
 Nor yield to doubt and fear ; 
 But borne on wings of faith above, 
 
 Would " read my title clear — 
 
 To mansions ' of eternal bliss. 
 
 No tears, no sin, no pain ! 
 How. when, or where, with hopes like this, 
 
 " For me to die is gain." 
 
 And yet the spirit vainly dreads 
 
 To leave its earthly mould ; 
 To feel the struggling heart-strings break, 
 
 The curdling blood grow cold. 
 
 To leave the body in the tomb 
 
 To moulder and decay, 
 Tho' knowing it is sown to bloom 
 
 At the appointed day, 
 
 • Rise, rise, my soul ! can He not save 
 
 Who took from death its sting? 
 And Where's thy victory, boasting grave, 
 Since sanctified by Him ? 
 
 " Give us this day our daily bread " — 
 
 Thus are we taught to pray, 
 So dying grace is not lor life. 
 
 But for a dying day. 
 
 « As His dear breast supports our bead 
 
 In that last hour of strife, 
 With wonder we'll adore that love 
 We failed to trust in life. 
 
 The Editor of the Cape May Wave, on hearing of her death, 
 wrote October i6, 1886: "Mrs, Hughes was a woman of excel- 
 lent character, and her life was one of exemplary piety. She pos- 
 sessed unusual literary ability, and contributed to the current 
 religious literature of the day many valuable papers." 
 
 The Editor of the Star of the Cape, in whose family Mrs. 
 Hughes and her husband spent the winter of 1885-86, thus wrote 
 October 15, 1886 : " Though not altogether unexpected, the news 
 of the death of Mrs. Elmira W. Hughes, wife of Rev. Daniel L, 
 Hughes, Traer, Iowa, causes much sadness among Cape May 
 
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 friends. Leaving the rigors of the Western dimate Mr. and Mrs. 
 Hughes spent all last winter at Cape May. Mrs. Hughes was as 
 lovely a christian woman as ever honored our acquaintance. Her 
 intellect was bright and cultured, and many literary efforts and 
 poems of great merit emanated from her pen. To her devoted 
 husband she was a spiritual helpmate, and lonely enough must he 
 be now that she has passed to the brighter shore, where afflictions 
 come not, and joy eternal reigns. Mrs. Hughes was a sister to 
 Mrs. Williamson and to Mr. Albert Hughes, of this city. The 
 bereft husband may be assured that sincere sympathy is felt for 
 him in his loss of the companionship of one who had so many 
 years shared with him life's joys and life's sorrows." 
 
 As a housekeeper, Mrs. Hughes was among the excellent women 
 in intelligent cooking, cleanliness, order, good taste, economy, and 
 industry. The heart of her husband safely trusted in her : for she 
 looked well to the ways of her household ; and she taught each of 
 her daughters to be a good housekeeper, like herself. She was 
 very fond of flowers, and she cultivated them with tender care. 
 Every year under her faithful training they bore evidence of her 
 skill and fidelity by their variety, richness, and beauty. Her 
 climbing Rose which she trailed up on our front piazza, was said 
 to be the choicest in Tama County. As a writer, Mrs. Hughes 
 wielded both a rapid and a willing pen all her life, from her youth 
 up. She was conscientious in the discharge of all her duties. And 
 although an invalid she always tried to do all the good she could, 
 according to her ability and opportunity. She wrote and pub- 
 lished a great many articles in poetry and prose on a variety of 
 subjects, both secular and religious, and addressed them to all 
 classes — to the young and old — to the afflicted and bereaved — to 
 the saint and sinner. She wrote in behalf of Temperance, of the 
 Indian, of the Negro, and of Missions both Home and Foreign. 
 She had a facility and adaptedness in writing for, and in interesting 
 especially the young. Besides many pieces of poetry and prose 
 published, Mrs. Hughes left an unpublished book of poetry — an 
 extended diary of travels — and several long treatises or narratives 
 in prose on useful subjects, read during her life to interest and 
 profit the children and youth under her care. 
 
 Of her pubHshed writings I will here record a few pieces only 
 
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 •of her prose anJ poetry that seem to come appropriately to hand, 
 and which I hope may be useful. The first prose article is her 
 Colorado letter. She frequently wrote letters of travel for different 
 papers. When the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church 
 met at St. Louis, Mo., in May, 1874, Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D.D., 
 the Synodical Missionary of Colorado Territory, who resided at 
 Denver, extended a cordial invitation to as many ministers and 
 elders and their wives, as desired it, to make an excursion to the 
 Rocky Mountains, at the close of the General Assembly, to do so 
 under his leadership. " My wife and I " joined this excursion, and 
 found it one of great pleasure and profit. Mrs. Hughes gave her 
 description of it in a letter dated, Manitou, Col. Ter., June 17, 1874, 
 and it was published in the Vinton Eagle, Iowa, July i, 1874, as 
 follows : 
 
 Dear Eagle : — So much has been written in regard to trips 
 across the plains, that I shall not burden your pinions with buffalo, 
 antelope, deer, prairie dog towns, and underground houses. As 
 you may know, after reaching Denver, the excursionists took an 
 extended tour through Clear Creek canyon, to Golden and to 
 Idaho hot springs, tbence to Georgetown, the highest mountain 
 town — back to Idaho Springs ; thence across the Rocky Mount- 
 ains to Central City and Blackhawk ; thence to Rollins ; to Bould- 
 er, through the Boulder Canyon, and back again to Denver. 
 Resting there two days, we expected to leave for Colorado Springs 
 {j6 miles south of Denver) and Manitou, when we were informed 
 that through the influence of General W. J. Palmer, President of 
 the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, there had been a special train 
 provided for the excursionists, and we were to be passed to Pueblo 
 (42 miles south of Colorado Springs) and returned, free. The road 
 is a narrow gauge, and is remarkably smooth. We traveled at the 
 rate of forty miles an hour. There were three car loads of us. 
 After the long trip together we were well acquainted, visiting back 
 and forth strolling out to gather curiosities or flowers, whenever 
 the cars stopped ; and as we were well rested and improved m 
 health, a more sociable, cheerful, ^'S well as intelligent company, 
 you can scarcely imagine. 
 
 The scenery is varied between Denver and Pueblo — hills and 
 plains, mountains and valleys. Very little rain falls in these 
 
regions, but the many clear, beautiful streams fTowing from the 
 mountains are a blessing to the thirsty land. Every farmer has- 
 ditches through his fields, about 25 feet apart ; and these, commu- 
 nicating with the streams, are filled ; and they tell us it is not 
 necessary to let the water cover the surface, as it spreads under 
 the soil, and refreshes and gives vitality to the roots. The wheat 
 looked fine in Southern Colorado, but corn seemed backward. The 
 flowers on the wild land were of almost endless variety ; but the 
 large fields of cactus, in full bloom, seemed to elicit the greatest 
 praise. 
 
 Pueblo, the oldest Colorado town, is situated on both sides of 
 the Arkansas River, and has about 5,000 inhabitants, though I 
 belieye they claim more. We found it exceedingly warm there, 
 after breathing, so long, the mountain air. The river is pleasant, 
 running through the town ; but from the appearance of things I 
 should judge it to be treacherous, at some seasons. Colorado 
 Springs is the name of the county town of El Paso county, while 
 the springs really are at Manitou, five miles distant. We were met 
 by coaches at Colorado Springs, on our return from Pueblo, and 
 were conveyed to Manitou the same evening. 
 
 Manitou had no improvements until about two years ago ; now 
 there are two large, excellent hotels — the Manitou and the Cliff 
 House. The latter is just opened, and was both christened and 
 consecrated by our company, as you shall see. There are, also, 
 several smaller boarding-houses, and a number of private resi- 
 dences, among the latter that of Grace Greenwood, who is ex- 
 pected soon to occupy it. It is said that when Col. Fremont 
 discovered these springs, he found many Indian trinkets in and 
 around them, as offerings to the Great Spirit of Manitou, or the 
 Healing Waters. One is said to be a sulphur spring, but it is 
 " doubtfully weak, most persons think. There are several iron 
 springs — two as strong as any of which the older States can boast. 
 The soda springs are almost without number : we come upon them 
 in every ramble, as we do upon the streams and waterfalls. The 
 most famous, however, is the large one near the Cliflf House. It 
 boils and bubbles, and runs over the high stone inclosure, forming 
 a little rill, emptying into the brook. Some who care not for its 
 medicinal virtues, mix it with lemon juice, and have a delicious 
 effervescent drink, fresh from the spring. 
 
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 "Everywhere we go, Pike's Peak is the one great object of ad- 
 miration. As you approach the mountains, it stands in proud, cold 
 grandeur, towering above them all. It seems vain too, constantly 
 changing, as if to attract attention — hiding its head beneath the 
 clouds, or shining, snow-clad, in the sunlif ht. At other times, its 
 lower part, visible above the other mountains, will be enveloped in 
 clouds, so that its summit appears as if floating in the sky. One, 
 I do not say who, delivered an impromptu on this scene, thus : 
 
 Pike's Peak takes a freak, 
 
 And all its base enshrouds^ 
 While its sleet, snow-capped peak 
 
 Seems floating in the clouds. 
 
 The summit of Pike's Peak is 14,386 feet above the level of the 
 sea. 
 
 Besides Pike's Peak, the principal objects of interest are " The 
 Garden of the gods," Monument Park, Glen Eyrie, with its beauti- 
 ful canyon, the Falls of the Fountain, the Ute Pass, and Cheyenne 
 canyon. Our company went first to Glen Eyrie, and those who 
 were able went up the canyon, and, among other curiosities, saw 
 " The Devil's Punch Bowl," a huge rocky basin, into which the 
 falls, many feet above, dash with great violence. Gen. Palmer's 
 residence is at Glen Eyrie, and Mrs. P. accompanied the ladies up 
 the canyon, while her mother, Mrs. Mellon, kindly entertained us 
 weaker ones who remained, providing us a cup of tea, and refresh- 
 ments, served in the daintiest style. The architecture of the house 
 is novel, and appropriate to its location, amid the fantastical rock 
 formations, the waterfalls and groves. Everywhere within, some- 
 thing curious met the eye. Elk and deer horns were tastefully 
 arranged in the midst of evergreens. Over the breast-work of the 
 mantel piece, you find a buffalo skin, with its enormous head com- 
 ing suddenly out as if ready to leap upon you ; an easy chair was 
 formed of one of these, the legs seeming to have been taken off at 
 the first joint, and the remainder of them forming the legs of the 
 chair ; while the skin formed the back and seat and its huge head 
 with glass eyes answered to rest your limbs upon. Stuffed birds, 
 fossils, and a cabinet of specimens of ore, &c., coats of arms, bronze 
 figures, a fine library, exquisite paintings, rich furniture, and you 
 
have so much of art and nature commingled, as to redeem it from' 
 stately stiffness on the one hand, or wildness on the other. 
 
 Next we visited the " Garden of the gods." Language is dumb^ 
 when we attempt to describe what must be seen to be appreciated. 
 If the West develops further, we must add some other words to 
 our vocabulary — "grand," "beautiful," and even "magnificent" are 
 worn out, and are not able to express all we see. You enter the 
 Garden between two chains of yellowish brown rocks, 800 feet 
 high ; while at the extreme end, just in front of you, the walls of 
 rock are white. On every side you behold pillars, monuments, 
 castles and almost anything else your vivid imagination may con- 
 jure up, from 20 to 800 feet high. Many of these rocky pedestals 
 have huge figures on the top, which really look like relics of 
 heathen mythology — hence its name, " Garden of the gods." Some 
 of the rocky walls have openings like gothic windows, the sky 
 showing through, and with the spires rising here and there — one 
 has the name of the Cathedral. Many climbed to the top of this 
 up the natural stairway, back of broken rocks. The prospect,, 
 they said, they never could forget, while life lasted. Mr. H and a 
 number of other gentlemen, and a few ladies entered a cave through 
 a hole in a rock, only large enough to admit one, and found them- 
 selves, after ascending a few feet, in a room 15 to 20 feet broad and 
 100 feet long, with a ceiling 100 feet high. Some of our best 
 singers were of the company, and the effect, as " Rock of Ages " 
 echoed through those sounding arches, can be better imagined 
 than described. 
 
 At this point our party separated, one coach returning to the 
 hotel, and several others going to the mouth of Cheyenne canyon, 
 with its rocky walls hundreds of feet above them _: by a footpath 
 they ascended, crossing the stream fifteen times on rough foot- 
 bridges, often feeling the spray of the waterfalls. But one gentle- 
 man and two young ladies ascended the topmost rock to gain a 
 view of seven successive waterfalls. They only had a footing the 
 width of the hand — smooth rock — to cling to, and a perpendicular 
 precipice of 500 feet below them. 
 
 The third party started on ponies for the ascent of Pike's Peak, 
 and did not return until noon of the next day. They had blankets, 
 and slept out. They had to leave their horses about two miles 
 
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 from the summit, and ascended amid broken rock and snow, often 
 upon their hands and knees. One gent lost his gloves, and he 
 suffered greatly from having his hands so much in the snow, and 
 fears they are frozen. They all seemed very subdued when they 
 returned, though so enthusiastic when they started. They said 
 the trip would do for a life time. It is said that Anna Dickinson 
 ascended the Peak — the first if not the only lady who has made the 
 ascent. 
 
 We have visited the " Falls of the Fountain " in Ute Pass. These 
 are about fifty feet high, and rush and roar like a second Niagara, 
 
 E. W. H. 
 
 Her second prose article selected and which was published in 
 the Presbyterian Banner, Pa., is "Abounding Grace Forbids 
 Continuance in Sin." 
 
 When I consider all that God has done for me, how can I sin 
 against him ? He has been mindful of me from my earliest in- 
 fancy. He gave me a pious mother ; her prayers and instructions 
 were brought home to my heart by the Holy Spirit. I had a faith- 
 ful Sabbath school teacher, who spoke to me at times with feeling 
 about my soul. She being naturally reserved, I could see that she 
 struggled to overcome her timidity for my good ; her holy ex- 
 ample, as well as her efforts, was blessed to my soul. Kind 
 friends sometimes urged me to secure my eternal interests and 
 prayed with me ; this arrested me when I had grown careless. My 
 dear pastor was faithful, not only in the pulpit, but at the Bible 
 class, and in his visits ; through his instrumentality I was enabled, 
 I trust, to decide to be on the Lord's side. Why was not I born 
 in a heathen land where I never would have known the way to 
 salvation ? Or why was I not left to myself when I resisted the 
 Holy Spirit? 
 
 After so much loving kindness and condescension in the gift of a 
 Saviour, and granting me his Spirit to enable me to receive and 
 rest upon him alone for Salvation, how can I sin against him ? 
 Since I have had a hope through grace, I have still had great cause 
 for gratitude. I have been kindly guided : " This is the way, walk 
 ye in it." When ready to faint through the temptations of the 
 adversary, the blessed promises have encouraged me. " He giveth 
 
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 power to the faint, and to them that have no might he increaseth 
 strength." His kindness and sympathy have comforted me. "He 
 remembereth that we are but dust." " He has suffered, being 
 tempted that he may be able to succor those that are tempted." 
 When the world has endeavored to lure me, and I feared to bring 
 reproach on the cause which I had espoused, I have been strength- 
 ened by the promise, " The Lord shall preserve thy going out and 
 thy coming in from this time forth, even forever." When bowed 
 down with affhction for the loss of those near and dear, I have 
 been enabled to say: "He doeth all things well;" and have felt 
 that I could be happy in God, if all things earthly were removed. 
 " What a privilege is this," says the good Mr. Newton, "to possess 
 God in all things while we have them, and all things in God when 
 they are taken away from us." When racked by disease and pain, 
 I have felt the everlasting arms underneath me, to support me, and 
 so have borne my afflictions joyfully; yes, have even considered 
 them blessings, compared with all that earth could give, without 
 such heavenly consolation. In view of what God is as a merciful 
 Saviour, filled with compassion for our infirmities ; and who, with 
 the temptation, will also make a way of escape, or will enable to 
 bear it ; and in remembrance of what God has done for me, and 
 what He has promised for the future — to be my God forever and 
 ever, to guide me by his counsel, and afterward receive me to 
 glory, how, O how can I sin against Him ? 
 
 The first piece of her poetry that I quote is one, among others 
 from her pen, that Mrs. Rev. McGinnes admired and treasured up, 
 and which was published in several papers, the subject of which 
 was: — 
 
 OUR AFFLICTIONS. 
 
 "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for 
 us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." — 2 Cor., 4:17, 
 
 As all have sinned so all must share 
 
 In sorrow and in pain, 
 But since all we are called to bear 
 
 Is for our endless gain, 
 We'll meekly take each bitter draught, 
 Believing it with blessings fraught. 
 
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 Our griefs are lighter than our guilt, 
 Our smiles more than our tears ; 
 
 O'er each abyss a way is built, 
 And hopes are more than fears ; 
 
 So, though the gulf may yawn below. 
 
 We'll upward look and onward go. 
 
 And O how light is every grief, 
 
 And trifling every care, 
 Compared with Christ's, when for relief. 
 
 He breathed the earnest prayer : 
 " My Father, if thy will it be, 
 May this dread cup now pass from me." 
 
 It passed not, " and in agony 
 
 More earnestly He prayed;" 
 And though an angel hand was near. 
 
 To strengthen and to aid. 
 The " falling " drops of " sweat " were found 
 " Great drops of bipod down to the ground." 
 
 " But for a moment "' trials last. 
 
 Each sorrow brings a joy; 
 Visions of glory pure and bright 
 Our ravished eyes employ ; 
 ■ And as we hail each rising beam,, 
 " Grace all sufficient " is our theme. 
 
 A "glory " which exceeds all thought, 
 
 " A weight of glory ' ' too ; 
 Not gaudy shadows earthly-wrought 
 
 And transient as the dew — 
 A substance an eternal weight, 
 Reserved for our eternal state. 
 
 If sorrow thus gives birth to joy, 
 
 I'd not Securely rest. 
 And lazily myself enjoy 
 
 In a soft downy nest ; 
 But have my God disturb my ease, 
 Just how, and when, and where be please. 
 
 And as the eagle fluttereth o'er. 
 
 And beareth on her wings 
 Her young, enticing them to soar, 
 
 So from all earthly things 
 May God allure my soul away 
 To regions of unclouded day. 
 
 Whatever ill shall me betide. 
 
 Or what of earthly good, 
 I could not if I would decide. 
 
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 And would not if I could ; 
 So all my " light affliction ' here 
 But fits me for a glorious sphere. 
 
 The following piece of her published poetry has been admired 
 by several persons, on : — 
 
 THE WARP AND WOOF OF LIFE. 
 
 Threads of silver, threads of gold, 
 
 Stretched across the lifetime loom. 
 When we're young, and when we're old, 
 
 From the cradle to the tomb. 
 All unbroken threads of love 
 From our Father's hand above. 
 
 Time the weaver fills them in. 
 
 With some colors, ever bright, 
 Yet dark stripes of woe and sin 
 
 Mingle with the shades more light. 
 But the warp doth still remain. 
 Threads of gold and silver chain. 
 
 'Mid the hues both dark and light, 
 
 Which the varied woof reveals, 
 I by faith would keep in sight 
 
 All the warp the woof conceals — 
 Threads of love across life's loom, 
 From the cradle to the tomb. 
 
 He who, with a skill divine, 
 
 Fills the shuttle, well may know 
 What to choose for me and mine. 
 
 Through the warp what woof should go. 
 I would thank Him for the gay, 
 Come the somber where it may. 
 
 And when Time his work has done, 
 
 Weaving moments into hours, 
 Days, with each revolving sun, 
 
 Into years, with all his powers — 
 I'll learn in Heaven's own perfect light, 
 Wliy dark shades mingled with the bright. 
 
 Mrs. Hughes, as already stated, had a true Missionary spirit, 
 always, in behalf of both Home and Foreign Missions. She started 
 a Woman's Missionary Society in the behalf of Foreign Missions, 
 in the Tranquilty Church, Traer, Iowa, of which her husband was 
 pastor, as her last work in that department. She was elected its 
 first president, and continued as such for four years until she was 
 
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 •compelled from her increasing ill health to resign. She gave her 
 last ;^i.oo to it in payment of her regular subscription. That 
 Society thus started is still kept up and is doing good work. At 
 the request of the Iowa Woman's Synodical Missionary Society, 
 she prepared a prose article on the text — " The Master is come and 
 calleth for thee," in behalf of Foreign Missions, which was read 
 with approval before their society at its tenth meeting, held in the 
 first Westminster Church, Keokuk, Iowa, October 7, 1885. She 
 also composed, at their request, a piece of poetry in behalf of Home 
 Missions, which was read with commendation as "a beautiful home 
 mission hymn " at their Eighth Annual Meeting, held in Cedar 
 Rapids, Iowa, October 17, 1884, and published on page 41 in their 
 Eighth Annual Report. We quote it here. She being dead thus 
 still speaks, 
 
 HOME MISSION HYMN. 
 
 BY MRS. E. W. HUGHES. 
 
 From Western snow-clad mountains, 
 
 From hill and grove and plain ; 
 Where leap those crystal fountains 
 
 To reach the mighty main — 
 From geyser and from canyon, 
 
 Ravine and rocky height, 
 Where Beauty's veiled in darkness, 
 
 They call for Gospel light. 
 
 Where earth yields forth at pleasure 
 
 Her gold and precious stone, 
 They sigh for heavenly treasure. 
 
 The " pearl of price " unknown. 
 Here error reigns in darkness 
 
 And Satan soweth tares, 
 While Christian youth and kinsmen 
 
 Well claim our fervent prayers, 
 
 The crushed but struggling freedman, 
 
 In his great hour of need. 
 Entreats for Bible teachers, 
 
 That he may learn to read. 
 The red man of the forest, 
 
 Espies the dawning ray 
 And waits with eager longing 
 
 To see the perfect day. 
 
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 They cry from flower-decked prairie 
 
 With rivers bold and grand, 
 " O! preach to us the Gospel, 
 
 Redeem this promised land," 
 With all thus " white to harvest " 
 
 And wasting in the field. 
 While laborers few and fainting, 
 
 We will the sickle wield. 
 
 Where giant tree and geyser 
 
 Their Maker's name proclami. 
 We'll raise the Gospel standard. 
 
 And preach in Jesus' name. 
 In rocky cliffs and mountains 
 
 Where oaths and curses ring, 
 The answering rocks shall echo 
 
 God's praises while we sing. 
 
 The Sunny South shall echo 
 
 Our answer to the freed ; 
 " We'll send the precious Gospel, 
 
 Ye shall be free indeed." 
 The Indian in his wigwam 
 
 Shall hear the Gospel song, 
 That we have taught his children, ' 
 
 And join in it ere long. 
 
 We'll plant the " Rose of Sharon " 
 
 Where prairie flowers grow ; 
 Where flow majestic rivers. 
 
 Shall full salvation flow. 
 'Till all of every nation. 
 
 Who here a home have found, 
 Shall spread this great salvation 
 
 To earth's remotest bound. 
 
 I feel like imposing upon my readers one more piece of her 
 poetry that has just met my eye, although specially personal, to 
 show her pious spirit and her usual method of training her dear 
 children. Her husband was absent from home attending the meet- 
 ing of the Synod of Philadelphia in Baltimore in October, 1855. 
 Rev. Dr. David McKinney, the editor of the Presbyterian Ban- 
 ner AND Advocate, and his confidential friend, was sitting in the 
 pew at church just behind him when he received a letter from his 
 wife containing this piece of poetry. Having read it, he, with a 
 smile, passed it to the Doctor to read. He at once desired to re- 
 tain and use it. To this objections were made ; but the Doctor, 
 
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 having secured the consent of Mrs. Hughes, published it in his 
 paper November 17, 1855, -with an explanatory note in brackets — 
 thus : — 
 
 [Our importunity prevailed with the gentleman, to whom this 
 pleasing epistle was addressed, to entrust it to our disposal. It 
 was intended by the author for only the private eye. It is, how- 
 ever, not the worse, but really the better for that.] 
 
 TO MY DEAR, ABSENT HUSBAND. 
 
 O, think of me at twilight, love, 
 
 When the dews of evening fall. 
 And our children's eyelids heavy grow, 
 
 As they gather round me, all ; 
 
 As baby my worn cheek doth press. 
 
 And fain would slumber there. 
 And darhng Ella, in undress, 
 
 Kneels by my side in prayer; 
 
 And WilHe begs that he may stay 
 
 To count his numbers o'er, 
 Or learn some pretty Scripture verse, 
 
 Or hear some tale of yore. 
 
 O, think of me at twilight, love, 
 
 When fever burns their brow ; 
 J^one but mamma, or dear papa, 
 
 Has power to soothe them now. 
 
 O, think of me at twilight, love, 
 
 That hour we loved to rove, 
 When hopes were bright, and cares were few, 
 
 On the beach, or in the grove. 
 
 Now my cheeks are wan and pale, love, 
 
 And my brow oft knit with care ; 
 O think of me at that loved hour, 
 
 And remember me in prayer. 
 
 For, O, an hourly task have I, 
 
 A task of love, and joy, 
 That well might fill an angel's heart, 
 
 Or seraphs' powers employ. 
 
 To mould, and train immortal minds, 
 
 Is to a mother given ; 
 To fit lor usefulness on earth, ^ 
 
 And endless bliss in Heaven. 
 
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 Join me in prayer, at' twiliglit, love, 
 
 For the Spirit's saving grace, 
 That truth on their young hearts impressed", 
 
 Time never may erase. 
 
 That when God makes his jewels up, 
 
 And earthly joys are riven, 
 We each may say, " Lord, here am I, 
 
 With the children thou hast given." 
 
 At Traer, Iowa, ^une 17, 1886, Mrs. Hughes wrote out and: 
 properly executed her last Will and Testament. The preamble^ 
 manifesting the soundness of her faith, runs thus : — " I, Elmira W. 
 Hughes, of Traer, Tama county, Iowa, do acknowledge God as my 
 Creator, Preserver, and Benefactor ; the Guide of my youth, and 
 the Hope of my riper years. I acknowledge His Son, Jesus Christ,, 
 as my Redeemer ; the Holy Spirit as my sanctifier, and would thus 
 leave my testimony to the Triune Jehovah as faithful to his prom- 
 ises, and would trust Him to be a covenant keeping God to me 
 and to mine in all future generations. By his grace alone I shall 
 dwell in those mansions Christ has gone to prepare. I have hope 
 also of a glorious resurrection through my Redeemer, and trust 
 that ' after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh I shall 
 see God.' " After this she disposed of all her property, real and 
 personal, in minute detail, and with nice discrimination and con- 
 cientious fidelity. 
 
 Mrs. Hughes had an affectionate and confiding disposition, and 
 she drew these qualities ot soul out of all others who associated or 
 corresponded with her, whether relatives, friends, or strangers. 
 
 After her death, our oldest son, William W. Hughes, Esq., (the 
 only child absent from the funeral, because not reached in Dakota 
 either by telegram or letter until too late), thus wrote from Ros- 
 coe, D. T., October 11, 1886: "My dear Father, I received your 
 addressed letter from Lou, as also her note of mother's decease, 
 day before yesterday, and write the next mail. Believe me, that as 
 I am as sensitive of the opinions of those I love as a sensitive 
 plant is to the touch of the human hand, so equally am I suscepti- 
 ble to great and small griefs ; and with my peculiarly finely strung 
 nervous organization my heart is burdened with sympathy for you 
 and ours in our great griefs. I have felt that mother is here with 
 
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 me alt the time now, in spirit, and sTie knows now the deep love 
 that I have always borne, and bear her memory." 
 
 My sister, Mrs. Emma M. Roberts, Meriting after hearing of her 
 death, said : " You have been frequently in my thoughts of late. 
 1 know you must feel a void in your life that will never again be 
 filled. Sister Elmira's death filled me with deep sorrow, for memo- 
 ries of my childhood are associated with her, and I loved her very 
 much. 
 
 My sister, Mrs. Harriet N, Oakley, wrote : " I feel thai she has 
 always been a very consistent Christian, and a help to you in your 
 work for the Lord. We deeply sympathize with you and the chil- 
 dren in this your great affliction, I can more deeply feel for you 
 as I have passed through the same sad trial in losing my beloved 
 husband out of my sight. What a noble life was Elmira's ? Our 
 loss is her gain. How thankful I am that I was permitted to see 
 so much of her society while at Cape May last Winter. I felt 
 when I saw her in the cars that it was the last time that I should 
 ever see her dear face again in this world, she was looking so very 
 feeble. We shall go to them, but they cannot come to us — a great 
 home circle, where they are waiting for us. We shall know each 
 other there, is such a comforting thought." 
 
 My sister, Mrs. Amelia F. Kershaw, of Bound Brook, N. J., 
 wrote me — ," I remember very well the welcome I always received 
 at your house, and the many happy hours I enjoyed there with El- 
 mira and the little ones. Elmira and I were like two sisters, and 
 we were nearly always so congenial and so happy together, I felt 
 her death very deeply when I heard she was gone." 
 
 My brother, Rev. Jacob V. Hughes, Shawano, Wisconsin, wrote 
 me — " We received last night the sad news of Sister Elmira's death. 
 Both Lizziie and I join in sincere sympathy to you and all your dear 
 family. No loss more keenly felt than that of a wife and mother. 
 Yet I feel that we all have so much to comfort us in her death. 
 Truly our loss is her gain. She has only gone a little before, and 
 has rejoined the many loved ones there." 
 
 My nephew, Mr. Reuben Foster, Baltimore, Md., wrote — "Your 
 letter received and noted with interest, giving me the account of 
 Aunt Elmira's illness and death. It was a great comfort for you 
 all to be together during her last hours, which is not probable 
 
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 could have been the case had you not returned to your home in 
 Iowa. Aunt Elmira was always very kind, and seemed near to me 
 since my being with you those three years in the West. She ever 
 exerted an influence lor good over those around her. And hers 
 was indeed a true Christian character — no one could know her 
 without being fully impressed with it." 
 
 Mrs. Mary W. Johnston, St. Paul, Minn., formerly of Traer, 
 Iowa, writing to our daughter, Mrs. Louisa E. Kinney, after her 
 mother's death, says : — " We have just learned of your mother's 
 death, and extend to you our heartfelt sympathy in the great loss 
 you have sustained. But of her it may truly be said, she was 
 ready when the Master called, and 'to die is gain,' to such a pa- 
 tient, loving disciple. Am glad it was my privilege to have made 
 her acquaintance. Her cheerful sunny nature, knowing how much 
 she suffered physically without complaining, taught me many a 
 lesson. I always enjoyed my calls, and came away feeling your 
 mother's influence for good was great. We had several interesting 
 talks I will always rememember with pleasure and profit." 
 
 Miss Idalia G. Daniels (who herself died in California March, 
 1 891), daughter of a Baptist clergyman, Shellsburg, Iowa, writing 
 in 1886 to our same daughter, said : — " Though you spoke of your 
 mother's illness it was a great shock to us to learn through the 
 Observer of her death. Her beautiful soul always seemed ripe 
 for another world, and yet, as mama said, ' How dreadful it seems 
 to lay that delicate body away which has been cared for so long, 
 and so tenderly.' I shall never forget the impression her character 
 made upon me, and through the ministry of suffering her mission 
 was a beautiful one, and most beautifully fulfilled. I hope you 
 will accept our truest sympathy for yourself and father." 
 
 Mrs, Louisa Prichard, Tacoma, Washington Territory (formerly 
 a young companion of our daughters, and who joined with them 
 the Presbyterian Church at Des Moines, Iowa, under my pastoral 
 labors there), writing to me says : — " My dear Friend, I hope I am 
 not intruding, but I feel so much for you in your deep sorrow, and 
 wish to express my sympathy, in which my husband joins with me. 
 Mrs. Hughes was a dear friend to me, and I felt for her an affec- 
 tion next to my dear sainted mother. Both are at rest ; both suf- 
 fered long in body, but were so patient, great is now their reward. 
 
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 My tears mingle with yours and the children, They will miss their 
 dear mother, and her wise counsel, more and more as the years go 
 by." 
 
 Hon. William H. Leas, Des Moines, Iowa (uncle of the above 
 Mrs. Prichard), writing to me in reference to the decease of his own 
 wife and mine, says : " Mrs. Leas said to a friend just before going 
 to Chicago, who urged her to write and let her .know the success 
 of the operation, ' I will, but if you do not get a letter from me, 
 you may know that I am asleep in Jesus.' Mrs. Hughes likewise 
 is asleep in Christ. How blessed it is to be in that heavenly frame 
 of mind just before passing through the valley and shadow." 
 
 Miss Ellen W. Hamilton, St. Paul, Minn., (whose parents and 
 family were our intimate friends, and at the funeral of whose 
 mother I officiated at Vinton, Iowa), wrote me thus : — " My dear 
 Friend. It has been impossible for me to send you one line to ex- 
 press my sympathy until this time. Let me now assure you how 
 deeply I feel for you in your sorrow. Many times I wished I could 
 also be near to dear Mrs. Hughes. I know she had every care 
 and attention — but had I been nearer you should have deemed it 
 my place and privilege to have been the one to have waited upon 
 heri' I shall cherish through life her example of suffering, unsel- 
 fishness and patience — and I hope her example may stimulate me 
 to greater diligence and faithfulness. She was a rarely gifted 
 woman, and I was always proud to feel I could call her my friend." 
 
 Rev. Allen H. Brown, Camden, N. J., (a classmate at Princeton 
 Theological Seminary), wrote me : — " Dear Brother Hughes, you 
 have indeed experienced a great loss., Is it not your wife's gain? 
 See John 1 7 : 24, ' Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast 
 given me, be with me where I am ; that .they may behold my glory, 
 which thou hast given me.' I cut out of the paper the notice of 
 your excellent wife ; after reading carefully, notwithstanding the 
 small type." 
 
 Rev. William C. Cattell, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa., (whose heart 
 is one of tenderness and sympathy), wrote me thus : — ' My dear 
 Brother, I was much touched by the reference to your great sor- 
 row in the death of your wife. May our Lord comfort and sup- 
 port you." 
 
 Rev. Joseph T. Smith, D. D., Baltimore, Md., (a companion and 
 
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 classmate at Jefferson College, Pa,, of my uncle, Hon. George M. 
 Eldredge), wrote me : — " Dear Brother Hughes, to have lost the 
 wife of your youth, the companion of so many years, and such a 
 wife, is the greatest sorrow you can know. You have drank the 
 bitterest cup of earthly sorrow. How sweet the thought that as 
 earth grows darker, heaven is always growing brighter and coming 
 nearer." 
 
 On Tuesday, September 28, 1886, the Presbytery of Cedar 
 Rapids was to meet at Vinton, Iowa, twenty-four miles east of 
 Traer, on the same railroad. As I had formerly been a member of 
 that Presbytery, had also lived six years very pleasantly in Vinton, 
 and had two married daughters living there, I was desirous, if pos- 
 sible, of being present a part of the time, at least, with this Presby- 
 tery. So with my wife's consent, leaving her in careful hands, and 
 with the positive direction that if any unfavorable change occurred 
 in her case they should telegraph me immediately, I started for 
 Presbytery. But that very night she took seriously worse. I re- 
 ceived a telegram early the next morning to return by the 1 1 A. 
 M. train. I mentioned this fact to the Presbytery, as the ground 
 of my leaving, when, unexpectedly, the Moderator called on one 
 of the brethren to lead in prayer for me and for my sick and d}ing 
 wife, which greatly touched and comforted mv sad heart. From 
 that time she daily grew weaker. 
 
 The Presbytery of Waterloo, of which I was a member, met at 
 Tama City, Iowa, on October 5, 1886. Mrs. Hughes died on that 
 day. I wrote them immediately the cause of my absence, and sent 
 it by a special messenger. Shortly afterwards I received the fol- 
 lowing melting and comforting letter: — 
 
 Tama City, Iowa, October 6, 1886. 
 
 Rev. D. L. Hughes — Rev. and Dear Brother: The Presbytery 
 of Waterloo, in session in Tama City, have this day listened with 
 tender interest to your letter touching the death of your dear de- 
 voted companion ; the wife of your youth, your counsellor and 
 helper in all your arduous labors as a minister and a missionary 
 for so many years. 
 
 The Brethren desire to assure you of their sincere love and ten- 
 derest sympathy for you in this the sorest hour of earthly bereave- 
 
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 ment — when the loved one, who has been the solace and the joy 
 of your heart and hand for so many years, is translated from the 
 toils and sorrows of the church militant to the blessedness and wel- 
 come rest of the church triumphant. " Blessed are the dead which 
 die in the Lord." And, " Precious in the sight of the Lord is the 
 death of his saints," Of this blessedness and preciousness in the 
 case of our beloved sister there can be no doubt. In her triumph 
 and her victory and her heavenly crown we all rejoice, while we 
 sorrow for your loss. What is our loss is her everlasting gain. 
 
 It will not be long, dear Brother, till our Divine Master will call 
 you to " come up higher." You now have new ties in that 
 Heavenly land whither we all are tending, and whence ere long will 
 come to you the welcome plaudit, " Well done good and faithful 
 servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." In conclusion, dear 
 Brother, assuring you of our continued love, and sympathy with 
 you in this hour of your sorrow, we remain sincerely and truly 
 yours in the Lord, 
 
 Charles M. Howe, Moderator. 
 
 HER HOME. 
 The home of Mrs. E. W. Hughes at Traer, Iowa, is illustrated 
 on the opposite page. It was sketched by the artist early one 
 bright morning after breakfast, when Mr. and Mrs. Hughes were 
 hastily summoned in their morning costume from the garden and 
 the flower bed to appear in front to be photographed, with a young 
 lady teacher on her way to school, in " bold relief." In this com- 
 fortable home Mrs. Hughes died, and went from it to her "Father's 
 House " above.. 
 
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 THE CHILDREN 
 
 of Rev. Daniel L. and Elmira W. Hughes were eight — four sons 
 and four daughters — viz : — Daniel Lawrence, Ella Thomas, William 
 Williams, Elmira Florence, George Washington, Anna Lyon, 
 James Lawrence, and Louisa Edmunds. Of these, two sons and 
 one daughter are dead. 
 
 1. Daniel Lawrence Hughes was born at Little Valley, Mifflin 
 County, Pa., March 30, 1846; and died at Cape Island, New Jer- 
 sey, August 5, 1846, aged four months and six days. He was a 
 patient sufferer for two weeks, and is not dead but sleepeth — not 
 lost but gone before. He was buried on the Williamson's lot in 
 the Cold Sprmg Cemetery. 
 
 2. Ella Thomas Hughes was born at Lewistown, Pa., December 
 19, 1847, 2od died at Pine Grove Mills, Centre County, Pa., July 
 13, 1848, aged six months and twenty^-four days. A child of re- 
 markable beauty, intelligence, and promise, she is mourned as one 
 lost, but saved. She was sick but one week, and is buried in the 
 graveyard of the first Spruce ("reek, Presbyterian Church, Pa. 
 
 3. William Williams Hughes, Esq., the third and the oldest 
 living child of Rev. Daniel L. and Elmira W. Hughes, was born 
 at Cape Island, Cape May County, N. J., August 17, 1849. In his 
 early years he was, from exposure, troubled a good deal with 
 asthma, which has clung to him, more or less, all his days. It in- 
 terrupted often his continuous studies ; but his education was 
 carried on by his parents, in the common schools, at the High 
 Schools of Logansport, Indiana, and Tipton, Iowa, at Lenox Col- 
 lege, Iowa, and at the Law University at Iowa City, Iowa. To 
 all this he added much advancement by his own independent and 
 energetic efforts. Having completed his full course in the Law 
 Department at Iowa City, he was admitted to the Bar; and has 
 been a practicing lawyer ever since in Iowa and Dakota, until last 
 year when he entered the Government employ at Washington, 
 D. C, as one of the clerks in the Civil Service Reform, and seems 
 well satisfied with his position. I quote here, as appropriate and 
 instructive, an extract from one of his published letters to the 
 Free Press, Manning, Iowa, where at one time he resided and 
 practiced his profession : — 
 
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 Washington, D. C, July 19, 1890. 
 
 Mr. Editor: — I arrived here the evening of the 7th inst,, and 
 am in the employ of the Government. I fill my desk from 6 P. M. 
 to 12 P. M. Arise at 8 A. M. and thus have all day to myself, to 
 enjoy the advantages of the public libraries, and to visit the 
 museums, botanical garden, conservatories, Smithsonian Institute, 
 fish commission buildings, art gallery, monument, and the various 
 executive, legislative, and departmental buildings, and grounds. 
 
 This beautiful city is a veritable paradise. The streets, 150 feet 
 wide, are paved with asphalt, a kind of cement. Each sidewalk is 
 25 feet wide, and of smooth, white stone, and lined with larg;e hard 
 maple and other fine trees. From the Capitol, which is in the 
 centre of the city, running west to the Potomac River, some two 
 and a half miles, is ? continuous park, filled with elegant and 
 massive buildings, containing a vast aggregation of contributions 
 from all parts of the world, covering natural history, chemistry 
 geology, botany, and, in fact, all the arts and sciences, besides 
 relics of men and things historical in our country's annals, as 
 insignia of the progress we have made as a nation in both the 
 more useful, as well as, artistic ways. This contains lofty and 
 splendid forest trees, nearly three feet in diameter, beautiful shrub- 
 bery, lawns, and a profusion of ornamental plants and flowers — all 
 interspersed with winding walks and drives, presenting its beauties 
 to best advantage. In the balmy summer air, here, growing out 
 doors is also found all the luxuriant vegetation of the tropics, and 
 the bird twitter and nest in the trees and baths in some of the 
 many fountains ; and all nature seems joyous, and its natural 
 beauties enhanced by the art of man. And all these enjoyments 
 are free to the public." 
 
 I have always felt that my cup of earthly happiness would have 
 been full if my two living sons had been called of God to the gos- 
 pel ministry, and they had entered it and preached to a dying 
 world, from the heart and in the powerful demonstration of the 
 Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ and Him crucified as the Saviour of the 
 world and the hope of glory. I desired it and prayed for it. They 
 both were naturally gifted speakers in voice, manner, energy, and 
 effectiveness. But neither of them seemed inclined to the ministry 
 and God seemed to have ordered otherwise. 
 
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 William W. preferred the law as his profession, and to this with 
 *' a determined will " he bent all his energies until he succeeded. 
 He was an excellent penman. Twice he took the prize offered for 
 the best penmanship by his teacher in this department. He was 
 a good school teacher, as he frequently taught school to help him 
 forward in his own studies, receiving at his examination for this 
 work the grade of 98 3-7 out of 100. And last year he took at 
 Washington, I am told, the highest grade in the copyist examina- 
 tion for a clerkship. He used to be also a skilful and accurate 
 marksman, holding his own with the best. He is as yet unmar- 
 ried ; but he has, along with some peculiarities, a very tender 
 heart, and loves his friends dearly. 
 
 The three living daughters of Rev. Daniel L. and Elmira W. 
 Hughes were as fair, as loving, and as well beloved, as were those 
 of Job. They were all what any parent could wish in heart, speech, 
 and behavior. 
 
 4. Elmira Florence Hughes, the oldest of these daughters, was 
 born at Cape Island, Cape May County, N. J., July 23, 185 1. She 
 was educated in the common school at Pacific City, Iowa, in a select 
 school at Des Moines, Iowa — in the High School at Tipton, Iowa, 
 and at the Mountain Seminary, Birmingham, Pa. and the Belle- 
 fonte Academy, Pa., under her uncle, Rev. J. P. Hughes. She 
 united with the Presbyterian Church at Des Moines, Iowa, in her 
 thirteenth year, and was always conscientious, careful, diligent, 
 obedient, and loving. She always studied her parents' best inter- 
 ests ; was always interested in children and adapted her instruc- 
 tions to them ; was a faithful Sabbath School teacher — a good 
 judge and critic of sermons, public addresses, and religious and lit- 
 erary efforts — and always a good housekeeper. Yet she always 
 seemed to have a low estimate of herself, and desired but little 
 publicity. But the truth must be told and facts stated. Before 
 her marriage, there was no young lady, it was said, in Viniton, 
 Iowa, where her father's family resided, who was considered more 
 beautiful and attractive than she was ; and she received the atten= 
 tions and the hand of one of the best young gentleftien of the city. 
 The published record is: — "On April 29, 1874, in the Presbyte- 
 rian Church at Vinton, Iowa, by Rev. D. L. Hughes, assisted by 
 Rev. S. Phelps, was married George Taylor Rock to Ella Florence 
 
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 Hughes, daughter of the officiating clergyman." Ten years after 
 this date The Vinton Eagle published the following : — " Tuesday, 
 being the tenth marriage anniversary of Tay Rock and wife, quite a 
 number of the family gathered at the house and tendered their con- 
 gratulations, and left many tokens of their love. Seven children 
 have blessed this union, six of whom are living, and a sweeter, 
 brighter family cannot be found in the city; in business matters the 
 young couple have also been very successful in accumulating a 
 goodly supply of this world's goods. The Eagle extends its con- 
 gratulations and hopes the succeeding ten years will be fully as 
 happy and prosperous ones." Mrs. Rock's aunt from Chicago, 111., 
 Mrs. Mary B. Fletcher, lately visited her, and she thus wrote me 
 under date of January 30, 1891: — "I think Ella has a beautiful 
 family of boys and girls. I think her a wonderful woman, so frail, 
 and yet accomplishing so much.'* 
 
 In writing to my daughter for some of the records of their family 
 for this " Ancestral History," she replied : — " Are you going to 
 have it published ? It seems so much trouble for you, as we are 
 not a family of national repute. All we care for is to know we came 
 of a good family. I believe 'blood always tells.'" But I say it is 
 wise to preserve well family acquaintanceships and relationships, 
 that are worthy, however humble ; and a godly ancestry, next 
 to personal worth, is the highest distinction. She adds : — '* Well 
 I never could write a book. I can scarcely write a letter." But 
 she is a good letter writer, writing often and promptly ; and writing 
 facts, full particulars, and to the point. George Taylor Rock, her 
 husband, the son of Augustus H. and Eliza Rock, was born at Ce- 
 dar Rapids, Iowa, May 12, 185 1. His father was a successful 
 merchant in the hardware, stove, and tin business in Vinton, Iowa, 
 but died of consumption at a comparatively early age, being only 
 thirty-nine years old when he died. His mother is a most estimable 
 woman, one of the best and most highly appreciated to be found 
 anywhere. She has sincere piety, good judgment, christian hos- 
 pitality, and persevering industry ; and is ready, in the church or 
 out of it, to every good word and work. Three children were born 
 to these parents — George Taylor, Susan Cornelia, and Augustus 
 Herman. The latter married, but died shortly after with consump- 
 tion. Susan, a refined young lady, married N. D. Pope, a druggist 
 
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 at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and they have one daughter, named Eliza- 
 beth Ives Pope. Sometime after her husband's death Mrs. Rock 
 married Mr. George Horridge, who continued the hardware busi- 
 ness of her first husband. He has been a prudent, energetic, and 
 successful business man ; and with his varied and safe investments 
 has become wealthy. He has also been for many years an active 
 and acceptable ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church at Vinton. 
 He is noted for his quiet consistency, unostentations liberality and 
 general popularity. He and his family, with other Vintonians, are 
 now nicely homed every winter in the beautiful city of Lake Charles, 
 the rapidly growing county seat of Calcasieu parish, in South West- 
 <irn Louisiana, and in a delightful climate. 
 
 G. Taylor Rock, after attending the ordinary schools at his own 
 home in Vinton, received the most of his education at the Univer- 
 sity in Iowa City, Iowa. He united with the Presbyterian Church 
 at Vinton in his i8th year, and was for some time one of its 
 Deacons, as also one of its leading choristers. He is a good finan- 
 cier, and is considered an extra smart business man. 
 
 The hardware, stove and tinware business was established in 
 Vinton in 1855 by Rock Bros, (father and uncle ot G. T. Rock), 
 It is one of the oldest houses in the State. The following changes 
 occurred in order : Rock & Horridge ; Horridge & Rock ; George 
 Horridge ; George Horridge & Co.; Horridge & Rock ; and G. T. 
 Rock. 
 
 The children of G. Taylor and Elmira F. Rock are eight — six 
 sons and two daughters, as follows : 
 
 1. Herman Williams Rock was born at Vinton, Iowa, March 3, 
 1875. He has grown to be a diligent and successful student, a 
 pious and active christian, and will graduate at the High School in 
 Vinton this Spring. The subject given him for his public address 
 on the occasion is, "A hundred years hence." 
 
 2. Taylor Lawrence Rock was born at Vinton, Iowa, February 
 27, 1876. He makes a beautiful picture — is fond of both play and 
 study — is smart and active — and if he will carefully and prayer- 
 fully cultivate the character and spirit of the Lawrences, after 
 whom he was named, he will make a useful and happy man. 
 
 3. George Horridge Rock was born at Vinton, Iowa, July 29, 
 1877. ^^ ^s a reliable boy — obedient and helpful to his parents — 
 
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 diligent in his studies — and solid as a " rock " in his good princi- 
 ples. But he says, '' Don't put me in any book." 
 
 4. Clinton Harrington Rock was born at Vinton, Iowa, Nov- 
 ember 2, 1878; and died July 29, 1879, aged eight months and 
 twenty-seven days. He was buried in the beautiful cemetery at 
 Vinton. 
 
 5. Elizabeth Taylor Rock was born at Vinton, Iowa, December 
 25, 1880. She is a very graceful little lady, discreet in her be- 
 havior, progressive in her studies both at the day school and at the 
 Sabbath school, and will no doubt prove a comfort to her parents, 
 an ornament to society, and a blessing to the church and world. 
 
 6. Harold Hughes Rock was born at Vinton, Iowa, February 
 II, 1882. He is one of the smartest of the family. He is a 
 romper, and yet he is full of business. " He would rather skate 
 than eat." He can stir around cheerful as a honey bee, and drive 
 a good bargain equal to the next boy ; and yet growing, I trust, 
 every day both wiser and better, remembering what the Holy Bible 
 says : " The fear of the Lord that is wisdom, and to depart from 
 evil is understanding." 
 
 7. Raymond Rock was born at Vinton, Iowa, February, 7, 
 1884. What shall I say of him? I ask, "What shall the harvest 
 be ?" With those dark and piercing eyes, and with that fine fore- 
 head of large causality and comparison, and with a body of natural 
 vigor under them, what is to hinder him from becoming in due 
 time, by the grace of God and the proper cultivation of all his 
 talents, a successful Minister of the gospel, or a prominent Pro- 
 fessor in some College, or even its President with not only a D.D. 
 but also an LL.D. ornamenting his original signature. " So mote 
 it be." 
 
 8. Hazel Elmira Rock was born at Vinton, Iowa, February 13, 
 1886. And is not the last the best ? She carries the " souvenir " 
 of both her mother and grandmother in the precious name of 
 "Elmira." Hazel Elmira is the youngest of all these " bright " 
 children ; she is plump, sweet, and lively. But, under suitable 
 parental and Divine training, she gives large promise of an ener- 
 getic and useful life. 
 
 This whole family — parents and children — are a family of 
 singers. They can carry all the parts of music among themselves 
 
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 at the same time. It is delightful and soul -inspiring to listen to all 
 their voices together, from the youngest to the oldest, praising God 
 from whom all blessings tiow, as also in cheering one another in 
 many sweet musical strains. 
 
 5. George Washington Hughes, the fifth child and second liv- 
 ing son of Rev. Daniel L. and Elmira W. Hughes, was born in the 
 parsonage at Spruce Creek, Huntingdon County, Pa., February 22, 
 1854. He was born on the same day of the month that George 
 Washington, the Father of his country, was born ; and as soon as 
 I was introduced to him I called him George Washington, and he 
 has borne that name ever since. He spent the most of his boy- 
 hood in attending the Common and High Schools at Pacific City, 
 Des Moines, and Tipton, Iowa. He also spent a year or more 
 with his uncle, Rev. James P. Hughes, at the Bellefonte Academy, 
 Pa.; and was afterwards a student for two terms at Washington 
 and Jefferson College, Pa. But ill health hindered the farther 
 prosecution of his studies. This has caused him much trouble, 
 and has interfered with the successful prosecution of his plans both 
 in study and business. But he was always courteous, affectionate, 
 and confiding; strictly conscientious in doing what he thought to 
 be duty, while he has displayed in several inventions a good de- 
 gree of inventive genius. He was naturally a fine elocutionist, 
 and if his health had been firm he might have been a successful 
 public speaker, as the occasional public readings and addresses that 
 he gave bore ample testimony. But his feeble health required his 
 retirement from professional life, and he has engaged, as he was 
 able, as an agent in some active and useful out-door employment. 
 He married Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson — the widow of a Senator — with 
 two pleasant daughters, and some valuable property. She is an 
 agreeable and truly helpful companion. They have several child- 
 ren, and live in Iowa. 
 
 6. Anna Lyon Hughes, the sixth child, and second living daugh- 
 ter of Rev. Daniel L, and Elmira W. Hughes, was born at Spruce 
 Creek, Huntingdon County, Pa., November 26, 1855. She united 
 with the Presbyterian Church at Des Moines, Iowa, of which her 
 father was the pastor, when she was only ten years old. She had 
 the opportunity of attending good schools in her early years. At 
 the age of fifteen she taught her first school in summer in Black- 
 
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 Iiawk County, Iowa ; and was offered the same school for the win- 
 ter term. But instead of teaching she preferred going forward in 
 her own studies. So she was sent to the Mountain Seminary at 
 Birmingham, Huntingdon County, Pa., where she graduated at the 
 age of seventeen. A short time after she returned home she >vent 
 to the Western Female Seminary at Oxford, Ohio, to prepare her- 
 self specially to enter one of the higher classes of either Vassar or 
 Wellesley College, Mass.; but after her first term, and while spend- 
 ing her vacation with one of her intimate companions, near there, 
 she was taken dangerously ill. Her parents then decided that as 
 her health did not seem equal to it, her plan for a collegiate course 
 had best be abandoned. After returning from Oxford to her home, 
 at that time in Vinton, Iowa, she taught several terms of private 
 school. She was a perfect lady in her spirit and manner, and dis- 
 creet in her behavior, which, with her varied accomplishments, 
 attracted the attention, and secured the confidence and affection of 
 one of the best educated and most excellent christian young men 
 in Vinton. He extended to her the offer of marriage ; it was ac- 
 cepted, and we read: — "On August 24, 1876, at Vinton, Iowa, by 
 Rev. D. L. Hughes, was married Clinton O. Harrington to Anna 
 L. Hughes, daughter of the officiating clergyman — all of Vinton 
 Iowa." Her general health, as was her mother's, is frail ; but "she 
 looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread 
 of idleness." She is strictly conscientious in the improvement of 
 her time, and, if she can find a few extra hours for it, she is fond of 
 writing for the press some pieces of poetry, or some useful stories 
 for " the little ones," by which they may be both interested and 
 profited The ladies of the Presbyterian Church at Vinton, had a 
 *' social " one evening to help forward their benevolent work ; and, 
 to increase attendance and interest, they invited all, who were will- 
 ing, to bring the oldest and best relics they had for exhibition. I 
 record here the following, taken from The Vinton Eagle : — '• Mrs. 
 Harrington and her sister, Mrs. Taylor RocH, had several ancestral 
 relics which one might be pardoned for coveting. Among them 
 was a large solid silver ladle, quaint solid silver tea set, beautiful 
 individual creamer, mustard cup, egg cup, wine bottle gilded. All 
 these were very old." 
 
 Clinton Orville Harrington, Esq., the son of Fordus Harrington 
 
ISC . 
 
 and Angeline Chapman Harrington, was born in Chenango County, 
 New York, October 14, 1843. His mother died at Pequa, Ohio, 
 when he was three years old. His father died several years ago, 
 at his son's own home in Vinton, Iowa, while on a visit to him. 
 Clinton Orville was educated in the public schools of Ohio and In- 
 diana, and at the Iowa State University at Iowa City. He grad- 
 uated at this University in the class of 1870, taking the degree of 
 Batchelor of Philosophy. After his graduation he taught in the 
 Iowa College for the Blind, at Vinton, Iowa, for about one and a 
 half years, beginning with August, 1870. He united with the M» 
 E. Church in the Summer of 1859, in his sixteenth year, when 
 living in Iowa County, Iowa, and he has continued a member of 
 that church ever since. He is, at present, a trustee of the Vinton 
 M. E. Church, having held this position for the past sixteen years. 
 He was also for a number of years the superintendent of its Sab- 
 bath school, and a teacher in- the same. In 1880 he was elected a 
 trustee of the Iowa College for the Blind for four years, by the Iowa 
 State Legislature; and he has been twice re-elected to the said 
 position. He served three terms, of two years each, as President 
 of the Board of Trustees ; and he is now serving his first term of 
 two years as Treasurer of the College. During all of his time as 
 trustee he served on the committee of schools and teachers. Mr. 
 Harrington enlisted in the Civil War as a volunteer soldier October 
 19, 1861, and served in Company E, Fourth Regiment Iowa Vol- 
 unteer Cavalry. He served until the close of the war, and was 
 mustered out at Davenport, Iowa, August 25, 1865. 
 
 He resigned his position in the Iowa College for the Blind in 
 1872 for the purpose of preparing himself by actual business expe- 
 rience for engaging in the business of banking. He spent about 
 nine months in Utah, Salt Lake — the most of this time in charge 
 of a commission and forwarding house. And he spent three or 
 four months in the First National Bank of Dubuque, Iowa, In 
 August, 1873, with others, he organized the Farmers Loan and 
 Trust Company, located at Vinton, Iowa, and was elected Secretary 
 of said company, which position he has held continuously until the 
 present time. He has held, and also still holds, other offices of 
 trust and responsibility. As a husband, Mr. Harrington is kind, 
 liberal, loving, and faithful — anticipating every want of his beloved 
 
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 wife, and helping her in every time of need — even going beyond 
 her desires and expectations. He is one of the few men who 
 seems to think more of his wife than of himself; at least he heeds 
 the direction of the Apostle, to "so love his wife even as himself." 
 Nor does the idea of spoiling her thereby cause him an anxious 
 thought. They are one in affection, in purpose, in effort, and in 
 reward. 
 
 C. Orville Harrington, Esq., and Anna Lyon Harrington, his 
 wife, have had one child, a son, named Clinton Oakley Harrington, 
 He was born in Vinton, Iowa, June 7, 1881, and is therefore now 
 about ten years of age. He was a delicate child, but has grown 
 stronger as he has grown older. He has been nicely homed, and 
 well trained under both his father's and mother's care, especially 
 that of the latter. He has made equal or greater advancement in 
 his studies than other boys of his age, although he has gone but 
 little to any public school. He is gentle in his manners, kind in 
 his disposition, conscientious in his character, and loving and 
 obedient to his parents. If spared, and his health should prove 
 firm, he has a life of goodness and usefulness before him. 
 
 7. James Lawrence Hughes, the seventh child of Rev. Daniel 
 L. and Elmira W. Hughes, was born at Pacific City, Mills County, 
 Iowa, May 18, 1859, and died there August 15, 1859, aged two 
 months and 28 days From his birth he was consecrated to God, 
 to be if spared and called, a minister of the gospel ; but he was 
 early called to minister in the Upper Sanctuary. His remains 
 were first interred on "The Bluffs" overlooking Pacific City ; but 
 were afterwards removed and buried in the old cemetery at Des 
 Moines, Iowa, where they still lie marked by a suitable tombstone. 
 
 8. Louisa Edmunds Hughes, the eighth and last child, and the 
 youngest daughter of Rev, Daniel L. and Elmira W. Hughes, was 
 born at Pacific City, Mills County, Iowa, February 2, 1861, Like 
 all the other children, she was early dedicated to God in the ordin- 
 ance of baptism. 
 
 When about eight years of age her mother and she started from 
 Iowa on a trip to Cape May, New Jersey. In passing through 
 Ohio, on the Chicago, Fort Wayne and Pittsburg R. R. one even- 
 ing, when the train stopped at one of its regular stations, her 
 mother left her for a few moments in charge of her things while 
 
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 she stepped off to purchase a few eatables at the restaurant. She 
 noticed carefully where she got off so that she might get on again 
 at the precise spot. But while she was making her purchases that 
 train was switched off, and another train took its place. She soon 
 came out of the hotel and got on her train (as she supposed) just 
 where she stepped off. The train started immediately, but she 
 could find neither her seat nor her child ; and after going through 
 all the cars and was disappointed, she spoke to the conductor, who 
 asked her where she was going, and when she answered to Pitts- 
 burg, he replied that she was on the wrong train, as that train was 
 going West, and in getting off at the next station she could not go 
 East until the next morning. Mrs. Hughes at once felt that she 
 was in a sad plight, which can be more easily imagined than de- 
 scribed. So soon as she alighted off the train in the darkness of 
 the night, she sent a telegram to Wooster, Ohio, to have the con- 
 ductor of the incoming train put off her little daughter at that 
 station, 66 miles distant, and have her cared for until she herself 
 should reach her the next morning; and requested an immediate 
 reply upon her daughter's arrival. She went to a hotel, and there 
 passed several hours in deep anxie<y, receiving no telegram until 
 Oiear midnight. In the meantime little Lou, so soon as she found 
 her tram had started and left her dear mother behind, was bathed 
 in a shower of honest tears. The ladies near her, however, tried to 
 comfort her, and she soon fell asleep. When called to get off at 
 Wooster, and the reason for it given, although so young, she im- 
 mediately gathered up all her own things and all her mother's — not 
 even forgetting a silver cup that her mother had loaned one of the 
 ladies to get a drink in for her babe — and took all with her to a 
 hotel, where she remained until her mother joined her the next 
 morning. I need not say, it was a joyful meeting. This favoring 
 providence, under such a trial, has been a source, not only of tears, 
 but of gratitude and joy to all of us, ever since. The Bible says, 
 " God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 
 Ps. 46:1. "The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them 
 that fear Him, and delivereth them." Ps. 34:7. 
 
 In regard to her education Louisa E. attended especially the 
 public school at Vinton, Iowa, until the fall of 1874, when she en - 
 tered the Tilford Academy at that place. Here she prosecuted 
 
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 her studies until the summer of 1877. During that summer she 
 also attended the Benton County Normal Institute, held at Vinton. 
 The year before, (1876) when in her i6th year, she united with 
 the Presbyterian Church in Vinton. In October, 1877, she went to 
 Oxford, Ohio, and entered the Western Female Seminary, under 
 the care of Miss Peabody, where she remained until the following 
 June, 1878 — the close of the school year. She returned to Vinton, 
 Iowa, and as her mother was absent at Cape May, N. J., she spent 
 the summer with her sister, Mrs. Anna L. Harrington. In the fall 
 of 1878 she went with the family on to her father's farm in Black- 
 hawk County, Iowa, and taught the public school in that District 
 for the winter. As in her previous education at Oxford Seminary 
 she had taken a course of lessons on Book-keeping, so she has 
 always been able to attend well to her own business matters, as 
 also greatly to aid her husband and the church in theirs. She cal- 
 culates readily and accurately, spells correctly, and is a good 
 writer. While at the Seminary she studied Elocution, also, under 
 an experienced teacher. She afterwards felt disposed, with her 
 parents' consent, to give some Public Readings. Accordingly on 
 December 3, 1878, she gave her first Reading in the Presbyterian 
 Church, Dysart, Tama County, Iowa, where her father regularly 
 preached. How she succeeded in that first attempt may be 
 learned from the following two testimonials. Hon. Joseph Dysart, 
 ex- Lieutenant Governor of Iowa, says : " In all such performances 
 the essential requisites are a full and well regulated voice, graceful 
 action, and the ability to impersonate character. That Miss 
 Hughes is well endowed by nature in these respects was evident 
 to all her hearers who have listened to men and women, who have 
 won a fame on the rostrum in this and other countries." The 
 Dysart Reporter said : " Miss Hughes made favorable impres- 
 sion upon the listeners who seemed to be well pleased with the 
 excellence of her performance. Her selections were good, and the 
 manner in which they were rendered showed study and careful 
 cultivation. She is likely to become a Highly^ accomplished elocu- 
 tionist and widely known." 
 
 In the Fall of 1879 ^^^ was engaged again to teach the school 
 she had taught the winter before, but resigned before the time ar- 
 rived in order to assist her mother in her domestic arrangements, 
 
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 and this she did until her parents moved to Traer, Tama County, 
 Iowa, in March, 1881, that her father might be nearer the churches 
 which he regularly served, and that he might give himself wholly 
 to the ministry. During the following Summer and Fall she 
 taught the Peter Wilson School, near Traer, for a term of three 
 months. 
 
 From 1 881-1883, she gave numerous public readings, where she 
 and her parents were known, and in the bounds of the Presby- 
 teries where her father had preached and with which he had been 
 connected ; but never went abroad among strangers — and wherever 
 she went her efforts were approved. She often read, and always 
 with acceptance, at Traer, where she resided. A few testimonials 
 out of many will here be given of some of her readings. Rev. C. 
 H. Bissell, pastor of the Congregational Church, Traer, Iowa, said: 
 " We were well pleased with Miss Hughes' Readings at our 
 church. Her easy grace upon the stage, the clearness of her 
 enunciation, rendering each syllable distinct to every ear, and her 
 ready appreciation of the sentiment of the pieces rendered, were 
 noticeable excellences." The Traer Clipper said: "Miss 
 Hughes had a select audience at the Congregational Church on 
 Tuesday evening who went away delighted." On another occa- 
 sion, when she gave a recitation before the Old Settlers' meeting 
 at Traer, this paper said : " Mrs. L. W. Kinney recited Will 
 Carlton's ' First Settler's Story.' It was one of the best things of 
 the day. Mrs. Kinney never fails to intensely interest an audi- 
 ence in her characteristic readings ; and in this case has the deep- 
 est appreciation of the audience and their thanks for the favor." 
 Hon. James Wilson wrote of her effort at the Tranquility Presby- 
 terian Church, of which her father was pastor, thus : " Miss 
 Hughes read at our church last Saturday evening and very pleas- 
 antly surprised us. She reads naturally without affectation or 
 stiffness, and is really far ahead of many whom advertising has 
 made famous." Rev. J. W. Hanna, pastor Presbyterian Church, 
 Grundy Center, said : " Miss Lou Hughes' readings in Grundy 
 Center gave general satisfaction. Our best critics were delighted. 
 Her manner was perfectly natural, and she gave exhibition of real 
 talent." Judge G. M. Gilchrist, of Vinton, said: " I can but con- 
 gratulate Miss Hughes on the success, with which she read re- 
 
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 cently, in the Presbyterian Church of this place. Knowing she 
 was so young and inexperienced on the rostrum, I was most pleas- 
 antly disappointed by the excellence ol her reading." I will quote 
 but one more. Rev. Stephen Phelps, D.D., President of Coe Col- 
 lege, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, wrote : " I listened with great pleasure 
 to the select readings by Miss L. E. Hughes. Her pieces were 
 difficult, and such as quite thoroughly to test her skill. Her 
 rendering of them was simple, graceful, and natural. She is re- 
 markably free from affectation of manner, from which the elocu- 
 tionist seldom escapes. Her taste and talent in elocution are rare." 
 
 Since her marriage, and residence at Lake Charles, Louisiana, 
 she has frequently interested the audiences there by her recitations, 
 and shared also in their high encomiums. 
 
 Louisa E. shared much of her mother's poetic talent. I can give 
 but three specimens. The first was published in the Presbyterian 
 Banner, February 2, 1 881, on her 20th birthday, and is as follows : 
 
 POST ANNOS VIGINTL 
 
 Two long decades my feet have trod • 
 
 The Path of Life, o'er flower-decked sod 
 
 Of happy vales where perfumes rare 
 
 Blended with bird-songs, till the air 
 
 Enchanted seemed; and all the way 
 
 Was fraught with joy and pleasures gay, 
 
 Or, through the shaded realms of woe. 
 Where sad-faced Grief walks to and fro ; 
 Where daisied mounds, so mournful, tell 
 Of buried treasures, loved so well ; 
 While plaintive tones from Sorrow's lyre 
 Breathe dirges o'er Love's funeral pyre. 
 
 Since now have flown these twenty years 
 Of joys and sorrows, smiles and tears. 
 My thoughts go tripping lightly back 
 Along the lately traveled track — 
 With Memory leading them — to view 
 The verdant vales my feet passed through. 
 
 At Memory's touch each long-closed door 
 Of by-gone days, swings back once more. 
 And through the vista of the years 
 The well-worn Path of Life appears ; 
 And now I seem to live again 
 The seasons past of joy and pain. 
 
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 I tread once more the sunny way 
 Of Childhood's bright and happy day, 
 When with a heart so light and free 
 I tripped along in joyous glee, 
 Where flowers bloomed on every side. 
 And velvet turf stretched far and wide. 
 
 Those happy, happy Childhood days 
 I leave once more, to walk the ways 
 Of Youth and Girlhood, where my feet 
 With rougher paths more often meet ; 
 Yet pleasures ever join with pain, 
 And joy-bells ring a glad refrain. 
 
 Angels of Love and Friendship guide 
 My footsteps. One on either side 
 They stand, and try with loving arm 
 And snowy wing to shield from harm ; 
 When wounded sore by sorrow's dart. 
 Their loving murmurs cheer my heart. 
 
 These varied paths are fair and gay, 
 
 But I must tread another way. 
 
 I stand upon the border-line 
 
 Where Youth and Womanhood combine ; 
 
 And stretching far o'er vale and hill 
 
 My future path lies grey and still. 
 
 But ah 1 this path I cannot see ; 
 Between that future land and me 
 A misty veil of cloudy hue 
 Hides all the coming years from view. 
 Yet Fancy paints, in colors bright, 
 A pathway full of radiant light. 
 
 Sometimes a dreamy breeze will lift 
 The curtain ; or through some small rift 
 I seem to see the coming years 
 Where all my future path appears ; 
 And oh 1 it seems divinely fair. 
 The earth, the sky, the fragrant air 
 
 Breathe naught of grief. The sunbeams stray 
 
 Lovingly o'er the flower-strewn way ; 
 
 The warbling birds, the bright-hued flowers, 
 
 (Blooming to cheer all weary hours,) 
 
 Soft turf, and bubbling founts of joy, 
 
 Seem pleasures nothing can alloy. 
 
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 And yet I know the future dim 
 
 For me, and all, holds sorrows grim, 
 
 And that the veil by Mercy's hand 
 
 Is wrought that hides the unknown land ; 
 
 But I will strive to be content 
 
 With good or ill, whiche'er is sent. 
 
 The second was published in The Housekeeper of Minneapolis, 
 Minn., October i, 1889, viz : 
 
 EVENING DREAMS. 
 
 In the quieting hush of the evening 
 
 That follows the close of the day, 
 When the stars are beginning to twinkle 
 
 And daylight is fading away ; 
 I sit in the glow of the firelight. 
 
 With baby at rest on my knee. 
 And think what a wonderful treasure 
 
 The dear Lord has given to me. 
 
 My baby, my innocent baby ! 
 
 As I watch o'er her happy sleep, 
 So restful, and rosy, and quiet. 
 
 Grave thoughts through my fancies creep, 
 I think of the shadowy pathway 
 , Spread out for her tiny feet. 
 
 And wonder if joy or sorrow 
 
 It will be her lot to meet. 
 
 Just as she is we would keep her, 
 
 Rosy and dainty and bright. 
 Making us bend to her wishes. 
 
 Filling the house with light. 
 But no ; with unwavenng footsteps 
 
 Old Time marches steadily on, 
 And ere we can quaff all its sweetness 
 
 Her fair baby-life will be gone. 
 
 Then O, for a wisdom to guide her, 
 
 That, spotless, her heart may remain ; 
 That the life that is opening before her 
 
 May be noble, and not lived in vain. 
 May the Father who tenderly guards us, 
 
 With blessing our labors repay, 
 That the dear little feet may not wander 
 
 Aside from His own narrow way. 
 
 The third was published first in The Interior, of Chicago, III., 
 and afterwards in the Star-Clipper, Traer, Iowa, September 21^ 
 
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 1 888. It was written to friends who had lost an infant daughter, 
 
 and is headed : 
 
 BEREAVED. 
 
 Dear friends, let me tell you a story, 
 
 A tale at once tender and true, 
 Of a gardener who walked in his garden. 
 
 Plucking flowers all sparkling with dew. 
 He lovingly touched their bright petals, 
 
 And arranged them with tenderest care, 
 For he thought, ah ! how soon would his garden 
 
 Be bereft of its beauty so rare. 
 
 He thought of the fast coming autumn. 
 Chill winds, and the winter's deep snows ; 
 
 Of the frost that o'er each lovely garden 
 Its mantle so desolate throws. 
 
 He stooped o'er a frail, dainty blossom. 
 
 That held its bright tace to the sun ; 
 And said, as he lovingly watched it, 
 
 " I can risk thee no more, little one; 
 The others may weather it longer. 
 
 May stand the rough winds for a while. 
 But this tiny thing must be sheltered 
 
 And cherished," he said with a smile. 
 
 Then he tenderly loosened its rootlets 
 
 From the bosom of dear mother earth, 
 And left but a sense of its absence. 
 
 To tell what its presence was worth. 
 So 'twas sheltered through all the long winter 
 
 And unfolded its beauties so rare. 
 And felt not a chill from the tempests 
 
 That raged in the cold outer air. 
 
 Even so the kind heavenly Gardener 
 
 Sent down from His Eden above. 
 And removed to His own loving shelter 
 
 Your blossom in infinite love. 
 
 He knew just what cold winds would strike it 
 
 He knew just what deep snows would fall ; 
 And safe in his own kind protection 
 
 He shelters it safe from them all. 
 Day by day are her beauties unfolding, 
 
 In His care they shall daily increase, 
 And free from all sorrow and suffering 
 
 Her happiness never shall cease. 
 
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 So, though your sad hearts are so lonely 
 
 And dark seems your griel-strieken way, 
 Be patient and trust in the Master, 
 
 He will lead you at last to the day. 
 And when at the end comes your summons 
 
 To pass the bright pearly gates through, 
 'Mid the loved ones you greet at the portal 
 
 She 11 be watching and waiting for you. 
 
 For one blessed message of comfort 
 
 By the Saviour to mourning souls given. 
 
 One that rings through the ages in sweetness, 
 Is: "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," 
 
 I copy the following from our family Bible: "On October i8, 
 1883, at the residence of the bride's parents in Traer, Iowa, by 
 Rev. D. L. Hughes assisted by Rev. J. S. Bingham, D.D., was 
 married L. Williston Kinney to Louisa E. Hughes, youngest 
 daughter of the officiating clergyman, all of Traer, Iowa." The 
 Star Clipper of Traer, referring to this event, said: "At 11 
 o clock a. m. yesterday, at the residence of the bride's parents in 
 this city, Mr L. Williston Kinney was united in matrimony to 
 Miss Louisa E. Hughes, her father. Rev. D. L. Hughes, officiating 
 with the assistance of Dr. J. S. Bingham. The marriage of two 
 such worthy persons, under such auspicious circumstances and 
 with a future outlook so bright is always a source of gratification. 
 One of the happiest moments in a young lady's or gentleman's life 
 is when, at the marriage altar, they vow before God and men to be 
 faithful to each other as long as they live ; and when to the wit- 
 ness of that happy, solemn act, there is everything to indicate a 
 future of sunshine and joy, the event is a most happy and pleasant 
 one to all. These were some of the things that made the event of 
 yesterday an enjoyable and gratifying one to the thirty or forty 
 guests present. If true manhood and true womanhood furnish the 
 foundation for a successful career and happy experience in this 
 world, then the good wishes and congratulatory predictions re- 
 ceived by the married pair will, as year succeeds year, be realized. 
 It is seldom our pleasure to speak of a more thorough, energetic, 
 and honest gentleman than Mr. Kinney, while almost any good 
 word spoken of the lady of his choice would be deserving in the 
 
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 highest degree. She is accomph'shed in that higher and better 
 meaning which goes to make a true lady. But our home readers 
 all know both the contracting parties and will not hesitate to unite 
 with the Star-Clipper in wishing that their future realizations 
 may be fraught with all the happiness and all the prosperity that 
 characterize the present indications." 
 
 Mr. Kinney's full name is Lorenzo Williston Kinney. He was 
 born at Norwich, Vermont, June ii, 1847. His father's name was 
 Lorenzo Child Kinney. He was born at Thetford, Vermont, March 
 30, 1 8 16, and died March 18, 1888, at Norwich, Vermont, aged 
 sevent)-one years, 11 months, and eighteen days. He was married 
 October 10, 1842, to Sophia F. Strong, at Haverhill, New Hamp- 
 shire. She was born April i, 18 17, and died at Norwich, Vermont, 
 November 10 1878, aged sixty-one years, seven months, and nine 
 days. The education of Mr. L. W. Kinney was confined to the 
 District school in Vermont, and to private instruction at home — for 
 his father sometimes hired a teacher in the house. At the time of 
 his marriage he was a successful merchant in the coal and lumber 
 business, at Traer, Iowa. After Mrs. Hughes's death, and my own 
 removal from Iowa, he sold out his business at Traer, and with his 
 family removed to a warmer climate. He settled in Lake Charles, 
 the beautiful and growing county seat of Calcasieu parish, in South 
 Western Louisiana. He and his family now reside there in their 
 own new house, own an excellent farm near town, and have made 
 several other good investments. He is attending to a variety of 
 business, but is meeting with success in the cultivation of fruit. 
 He is a man of great industry, of unbending integrity, and of strict 
 conscientiousness. He was a member of the Congregational 
 Church at Traer, Iowa, and a leader of its choir for three or four 
 years, and the chorister in its Sabbath School for six or seven 
 years. He and his wife united with the Presbyterian Church that 
 was lately organized at Lake Charles, and both have been very 
 efficient workers in it from its beginning until now, in helping ad- 
 vance both its material and spiritual inrerests. His wife teaches 
 in its Sabbath School as she formerly did in one at Traer, Iowa, 
 and he is the leader of the choir both in the church and Sabbath 
 School, and has also been elected one of the Ruling Elders of the 
 church. 
 
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 The children of L. Williston and Louisa E. Kinney are, ist, 
 Florence Lucile Kinney. She was born January 15, 1885, at 
 Traer, Iowa, She is a nice and well behaved little girl, quite 
 healthy, and is improving in all her studies. 2d, Herbert Hughes 
 Kinney. He was born July 15, 1888, at Lake Charles, Louisiana. 
 He is a sturdy, independent boy — a great climber, jumper, and 
 talker. He is healthy, good natured, and happy. 3rd. Anna 
 Harrington Kinney. She was born April 20, 1891, at Lake 
 Charles, Louisiana. She is named after her aunt, Anna Harrington, 
 Vinton^ Iowa. Under date of May 10, 1891, Mrs. L. E. K. writes : 
 '• We have a nice baby, so pretty, healthy and strong." And we 
 hope she will be spared to be a comfort and a blessing to her 
 parents and friends, to the church and the world. 
 
 The children of Rev. Daniel L. and Elmira W. Hughes are eight, 
 and their grand-children are fifteen. Total number, twenty three. 
 May we all, at last, through God's grace to us in Christ Jesus, 
 be found among the " Blessed, which are called unto the mar- 
 riage supper of the Lamb." 
 
 Thus end the genealogical and historical records of all our 
 relatives, in regular order, from our Great Grand Fathers in 
 1 7 II, 171 8, and 1745 down to my own last grand-daughter, born 
 April 20, 1891. A "few" have proven themselves unworthy of 
 their noble and pious ancestors ; but the " many " have honored 
 them, and proved the faithfulness of the Divine Covenant, by their 
 honest industry, fidelty in their family relationships, and above all 
 by their excellent Christian character, as those who were the true 
 followers of Jesus, and earnest workers in his blessed cause. May 
 all their descendants ever strive to " go and do likewise." To each 
 and all, in conclusion, I say : — 
 
 " If you wish to reach Heaven, strive hard, strive hard, 
 
 If you wish to reach Heaven, strive hard ; 
 Nor the conflict shun till the victory's won, 
 
 And you gain the eternal reward. 
 Be holy within, and keep spotless from sin, 
 
 Through the grace which in Jesus is given ; ^^ 
 
 Then, near to the throne, you shall claim as your own, 
 
 A crown, and a palace in Heaven." 
 
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