Yard, and my judgment is, she is
well prepared for the next world--and for the good feeling I have
had for her for over fifty-six years, I have Erected a monument
over her grave weighing 7 tons, and twenty-one feet high--it is a
splendid monument--cost me over $600.00.

"On the Eighth day of last July the Bishop confirmed 28 in our
Church at the ---- everything in good order--the singing was
complete--my Voice is still heard above all the singers and I still
stand at the head of the choir--I am only 77.--On the 16th day of
last October, Previous notice being given, the wardens and Vestry
met at my house--one minister was also present, a Lawyer being
called to do the business. At 2 o'clock, P. M. I commenced handing
over Deeds of land, Buildings, Bonds, mortgages, money & furniture,
to the amount of nineteen thousand and five hundred Dollars, the
use and interest only to be used for the Church and the ----
Institute; but in case there should be a failure of the Church &
school, for seven years, at any one time, then the Property to go
back to my Heirs.

"I have been schooling from 7 to 11 Poor children, yearly--I am now
not schooling as many--my school is doing well--we have a good
minister and he is a good Preacher. The Church is doing well. I am
now commencing one more building, 60 feet long, 30 feet wide, and
three stories high, for the convenience of more room for Boarders
in the ---- Institute.

"I wrung more Bells at the fall of Richmond than any man in the
United States, which they was all purchased with one man's money--7
was the number, 4 large ones & 3 small ones--it is true I was a
little opposed to the War--but no matter. The Brick Church and the
Buildings I built for the ---- Institute now with Interest cost me
now over $43.000. They are all Paid for and I am out of Debt. I
have furnished every stick of wood for the Church, and have carried
the most of it in since it was built. I still wring the Bells on
all occasions." etc. etc.

There is, perhaps, a touch of the garrulity of age in this good man's
recital; but I consider his record of his early life, slight as it is,
yet too strikingly suggestive to be left to chances which might await a
private letter. Indeed, the character thus displayed is surely equal to
that of the best of the old Romans, in the middling class of life,
enlightened too by a living faith of which they had no conceptio