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some record of his parents. He wrote, "Through hard work, thrift and simple living (though not despising luxury) it was possible that my parents, at the time of my father's death in March, 1806, owned a beautiful farm of 107 acres with buildings, besides having money lent out on mortgages, for which

. Several hundred persons had congregated at the depot in anticipation of his arrival and the doors of the restaurant were besieged by people with the hope of taking him by the hand on his return to the cars, but he executed one of those rapid flank movements which made him so famous during the war. He went