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44 turn to visit his relatives in Indiana until about the year 1880. It was as a man in late middle age that he walked the streets of Covington once more.

In this final letter of the series, he explains in detail why he cannot return. Shortly after writing this letter he married Margaret Wright. Tice died at Medford in 1889, while his wife survived until 1926.