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 to assist her husband in making a support for their children. It was said that she was the financier of the family. Mr. Simpson assisted his wife in school and at the same time studied law. He was a Confederate soldier. After the war he was a justice of the peace at Towncreek, Alabama. While he was not an office-seeker, he preferred office work to that of the farm. He lived in Towncreek, Alabama, for many years before his death, which occurred in November, 1903.

The children of Isaac S. Simpson and his wife, Kate Wade, were reared and educated at Towncreek. They married there. But now all the children are dead, except their son, Albert E. Simpson. Albert, after receiving his education, married Miss Hall, a young Tennessean whose father had recently settled in the rich and beautiful Tennessee Valley near Towncreek. He and his good wife live on a fine farm near Mount Stanley, a few miles northeast of Leighton, Alabama. Albert is a farmer and also a merchant. He is a prosperous, well-to-do young man. He has a beautiful home and everything needful to make a happy household. He is taking care of his mother in her declining years. It is to be hoped that prosperity and happiness will follow the happy couple all the days of their lives, and that their children will rise up and call them blessed after they have gone to try the realities of the next world.

Mary M., called "Polly," the fourth child and third daughter of Hugh W. and Margaret Stephenson, was twice married. She first married John Miller Johnston, of Alabama. After three sons were born, Alfred S., Albert and Elam Porter Miller Johnston, Mr. Johnston died. The widow married her cousin, Alfred Stephenson. Of this marriage two sons, William