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118 B. Smith, Dec. 21, 1848; nine children, four of whom married.
 * (4)., b. Feb. 1, 1830, d. i.
 * (5)., b. Jan. 3, 1835, d. i.
 * (6)., b. April 19, 1837, m. Oct. 7, 1856, Guilford H. Slaughter; died Dec. 25, 1909. Four children, a. Mary Henry, m. B. Whitfield; no children. b. Sallie Amelia, m. Edmund Leyon, five children. c. May Byrd, m. G. W. Meriweather, three children. d. John H. G.; two adopted children.
 * (7)., b. Jan. 7, 1840, d. s. Jan. 1, 1862.
 * (8)., b. Sept. 20, 1841, d. i.
 * (9)., b. Dec. 20, 1842, d. i.
 * (10)., b. Dec. 13, 1844, d. i.
 * (11)., b. May 17, 1846, d. i.
 * (12)., b. Dec. 8, 1847, m. John K. Smith; no children.
 * (13)., b.Sept. 18, 1852; m. Feb. 23, 1881, Joseph H. Jones; no children. She lives at St. Bethlehem, Tenn., the only one of the thirteen children living, and very kindly furnished the above information.

The following letter, furnished by Mr. Edward Frazer and published with his permission, is from Eleanor McClure's second husband. It is written in a neat, clear hand:

", Feb. 6, 1837.

As the bearer, Mr. Mason, intends being in Lexington, I imbrace the oppertunity to write you a few hasty lines, just to state we are all in our usual health. I have not heard anything from yourself or family since I had the pleasure of seeing you last faul. When my sou Davie was here a few weeks past he informed me that it was his impression that your honored and very aged father had departed this life, but at what time he was unable to say.

It was my impression when I last saw him that his days were but few, but that he was ripened for an incorruptable