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 have six very promising children: four daughters, Adelaide Mamie, Johnie Curtis, Frances Spurlock, and Edna Stephenson; and two sons, Seth McKinny, Jr., and Charles Evans. The children are all in school, except the four-year-old daughter, Edna. The older girls are well advanced in school. Judge Walker and family live on McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

William Myatt, youngest son of J. C. Stephenson, married Miss Lumpie Townsend, of Columbus, Texas. They live in Waco, Texas, and have three children—two sons, William Donald and Light Townsend, and one daughter, Alice; all good, intelligent children, very well advanced in school for their age.

I have thirteen grandchildren now living, seven girls and six boys. They are all sprightly, intelligent children, well equipped mentally and physically, for the contest set before them, for which I am thankful to our Heavenly Father. I have been for twenty years of my life a professional teacher in schools, academies and colleges, and passed out the same number of years in Waco, Texas, merchandising, and have passed a like number of years since, like the negro, "jes' waitin'." One hot summer day a passer-by saw a negro boy lying in the shade, over in a field, the weeds and grass about to take the crop, the sun shining very hot. "Hello," says the passer-by, "are you resting?" "No," said the negro, "I ain't restin'; I's jes' waitin' fur de sun to go down so I kin quit work."

The children of J. C. Stephenson and his wife have always been very kind, obedient and generous to their parents. Their mother died from the effects of rheumatism after having been confined as an invalid for ten years.