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teacher, and succeeded to the practice of Dr. Mac- 

 bride. For seventeen years he labored assiduously 

 in his vocation, and his zeal, his activity, his skill, 

 and his unaffected benevolence, secured him the 

 love and respect of a large clientage. His income 

 was large, but hardly exceeded his expenditure, and 

 his friends would often urge him to exact of some 

 of his poor patients a moderate payment — if not in 

 money, at least in articles of country produce, which 

 would be useful to him and convenient for them to 

 spare. But he would never consent. He looked 

 for payment in another world, and would always say 

 that he had a better paymaster than any of his pa- 

 tients could ever be. He died in 1834. His widow, 

 formerly Miss Palmer, daughter of John, and grand- 

 daughter of Capt John Palmer, and their three 

 daughters, still survive. 



Mr. Charles Stevens was one of the most re- 

 spected citizens of Pineville. Feeling himself en- 

 dowed with talents which he would not willingly 

 permit to lie idle, he was admitted to the bar, and 

 hoped to devote himself to the calling of his pro- 

 fession. But a cruel deafness seized him, which 

 proved incurable, and forever destroyed his hopes. 

 Before it had become so great as to shut him out 

 from social intercourse, he spent two years in the 

 occupation of teacher in the Pineville Academy, and 

 then he engaged in commerce, and opened a store 

 in Pineville, which for many years furnished the 



