OF A CERTAIN PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY. 27 



father's death the small homestead passed to him, badly run down and 

 incumbered with debt. He married III-18, who was of German ori- 

 gin; she was very active and strong, too. Together they cleared their 

 farm of debt and added more land, so that at his death, which occurred 

 at 56 years, they owned a fine farm of 150 acres. Aften\'ards his wife 

 continued to live on it and work it in part. She lived to be 95 years 

 old and retained her faculties and strength to the last, so that, even a 

 few months before her death, she thought nothing of walking a dis- 

 tance of 3 or 4 miles and attending to the family marketing. Their 

 children were: 



IV-46, born about 1838, died 1911. He farmed all his life, part 

 of the time in Wisconsin, part of the time in this State. He was a 

 very quiet, reticent, hard-working man, strictly honest in his business 

 dealings, but, both in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the burning of a 

 barn belonging to a man with whom he had a difference was traced to 

 him. In Wisconsin he served a term in the penitentiary for the offense. 

 He married, but never had any children. 



IV-48, born 1843, died 1912, cancer of the liver; married IV-49 (who 

 belongs to a decent, self-respecting, but unambitious family) to whom 

 she was superior in ambition, intelligence, and strength of character. 

 He was a section foreman most of his life near K, where they owned a 

 very comfortable home. Of their four children, V-99, 100, twins, 

 died at 2 weeks of inanition; two sons (V-97, 101), mechanics of some 

 intelligence, are steady and hard-working, maintaining their families 

 in comfort. Each is married and has three children (VI-95 to 100), 

 active, alert, making good progress in school. 



IV-50, born 1845, is reported -to have been of fair ability as a young 

 man, but has drank heavily for years and now is rated hateful and 

 devilish, impossible as a neighbor or business partner. WTien he 

 has had a few drinks from the hard-cider barrel in his cellar he becomes 

 very excitable and assaults the neighbors and his family. His wife 

 (IV-51), who is a sister of IV-47, has repea-tedly left him because of his 

 abuse. The farm which he inherited from his father is neglected and 

 encumbered with debt. The only surviving son (V-103) is kno\^Ti as a 

 drunkard and wife-beater. He works around here and there at any- 

 thing for a living. His wife, who came from Missouri to Pennsylvania 

 in answer to his advertisement, is described as "lacking"; she has left 

 him repeatedly, but always returns. Two children reported of excel- 

 lent mentality, musical, are ahead of their grades in school. IV-52, 

 born about 1848, is fine looking, clever, and an excellent businesswoman. 

 Has a daughter (V-105) married, with two children. A son (V-107) 

 roams around and is settled to no particular kind of work ; has a wife 

 but no children. A second son (V-109) of this same woman has been 

 lost track of. 



