Mrs. Julia Robinson was one of the lovely ladies at the Ferry, also, and
all of the teachers boarded there. She has a number of the students that
board with her and she is much beloved.

Mrs. Bell was one of the ladies that kept boarders and she is much
beloved. Mr. W. M. Bell is one of the teachers and all love him as a
teacher.

Mr. J. Trinkle, who keeps one of the halls in the Summer time has a
number of boarders, and does well all of the Summer months and in the
Winter he teaches in or near the Ferry. With it all they are all doing
what they can to help to forward the interest or an education in all of
that section, and I really think that part of the country will show a
larger percentage of those that have been educated through the churches
than could have been taught in the public schools, for the terms are so
very short that it is hard for the people to get a start.

But God has wonderfully blessed the teachers that have been sent on
there from the North to look after the interests of the negroes. They
love the work of the school-room, and it is their meat and their drink
daily to give away what they have received. The Word says that it is
more blessed to give than to receive, and we are always ready to
receive from the hands of our earthly friends, and it is much greater to
receive from God.

Mr. Thomas Lovett has two lovely little girls, named, respectively,
Florence, the eldest, and the other Shoelett, and they are very smart.
Mr. Lovett has built a hill-top house in a lovely place. It is filled in
the Summer time, while he has music for the boarders. That makes it
pleasant during the warm weather of the Summer months, and it is one of
the loveliest places that can be found on the B. & O. Railroad, and the
white people go their from all parts.

I had the pleasure of stopping there on my way home in 1895, and it did
my soul good to find such a fine house built by one of the colored
gentlemen and one that I had known, for I was at his mother's boarding
house for the whole time that I was at the Ferry. He was teaching school
then in the Winter time and looking after his mother's business in the
Summer time. So I am glad that some of my people are trying to make an
honest living. He is one among the many at the Ferry that are keeping
boarding houses; and I am thankful for all that comes to us as a race. I
hope, as I have often heard dear Dr. Fulton say that he wanted to see
the race go forward, and I pray tha