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with company, consisting not only of their numer- 

 ous descendants, but of others who, in return for 

 unaffected kindness, voluntarily offered this grateful 

 attention. The Major was all his life subject to 

 asthma, and he smoked incessantly. He eschewed 

 the Spanish tobacco as a nuisance, but always had 

 on hand a provision of several thousand American 

 segars, which were made to his order. He was a 

 man of great personal activity, and in the last year 

 of his life manag^ed his horse with the fearlessness 

 and dexterity of a youth. He had lived so long 

 with his wife that he could hardly carry back his 

 thoughts to the time when she was not his com- 

 panion, and after her death he continued to speak 

 of her as if she were still alive. He never, like 

 many others, avoided the mention of her name. 

 On the contrary, he took a positive pleasure in 

 making her the subject of conversation. Her say- 

 ings and doings were spoken of as familiarly and as 

 naturally as if she still remained at the head of her 

 family. It ought to be mentioned, as highly credita- 

 ble to both employer and overseer, that at the time 

 of his death, his overseer, Mr. Samuel Foxworth, 

 had lived with him in that capacity upwards of 

 thirty years. Two sons survive the Major, besides 

 numerous other descendants by a son and daughter 

 whom he survived. 



Mr. Robert Marion, formerly a member of Con- 

 gress from the Charleston district, and Mr. Theo- 



