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life time. Shesaid she could not have endured to know before hand the ter rible experiences of the war between the States. Her Father's Career. Her father died when she was fif teen. Some things she remembers hearing him tell about. For one she remembers his often saying that he was in seven battles and a great many skirmishes. Of these she mention ed six: Musgrove's Mill, Long Canes, Cowpens, King's Mountain, Eutam Springs and Guilford Court House. Her recollections of what he tolc her about "Blody Bill" Cunningham were very interesting. In a skirmis1 near Bush River between the patriot. and "Cunningham's B-loody Scout' the Tories retreated and Joe Griffir and Yancey Saxon pursued Bloody Bill himself. He narrowly escapei them and ever afterwards held them in especial hatred. When he and hi! men succeeded in surprising practical lv this same band of partriots at Hay'. Station, Cunningham swore with a wicked oath that if there were nc more men left between Heaven and hell he would have the lives of Joc Griffin and Yancey Saxon. Fortunately for Joe Griffin he wac away on an errand to General Gate! at Greensboro, z.nd escaped this hor rible massacre, one of the most heart less exhibitions of Cunningham', cruelty and treachery on record. Bui Saxon paid the price of patriotism being hacked to pieces, in the mos1 deliberate manner, according to som< versions of the story, by Blood] Bill himself. The only wound Joe Griffin re ceived during the war was due to hi. recklessness while on a scouting expe dition. 'Coming to a house where. hi was acquainted, and, to quote Mrs Monroe, "anxious, as young fellow. will be, to see the girls ," he an( his companions went in. There the. found a warm welcome. A quiltinj party was in progress and the visi tors were enjoying themselves thor oughly. The whole party were gath ered on the back porch drinking cidei when the alarm was given that thi Tories were on them. All of th< young men ran for the woods oi foot. Joe Griffin hid under a thici bush, but in some way he betraye( his hiding place, and a horsemai dashing by gave him a sword cut tha very nearly scalped him. He sprans out of his hiding place, shot his assail ant, and taking his horse, made hi' escape safely. Of all the party h alone escaped. He carried this sca to the day of his death. In his las years he was quite bald and it was conspicuous mark. A Visit From A Georgian. One of Mrs. Monroe's recollection of her father was a visit he receive< from a man named Ransome, of Geor gia. She remembered this becaus< she was at the time old enough to b, much interested in the strange visito and his business. Her father was ther so deaf that Mr. Ransome had t< spell his name for him and only b: petitions did he succeed in making him understand the object of his visit which was to gather material for true account of The warfare carrie< on between the patriots and the Tories. She did not know whethe he ever wrote any book about the wa: or not. Mrs. Monroe remembered her fa ther's receiving visits from two o his war comrades, Mr. John Osborn< and 'Squire Charles Allen, both o whom lived near Barksdale. When we asked Mrs. Monro< whether she had any relics of the Revolutionary war things that ha< been her father's, she said she ha< not--that no especial attention wa: paid to keep souvenirs of the war jus after it closed and that none of tha things her father had in the war was kept. She had treasured his Bibl< and a copy of the Laurensville Her ald containing a sketch of his lif and an obituary, but on July 27, 19O3 her house burned down and nothing was saved from the fire. In fact thi family were fortunate to escape. Her father died in April of th< year 185o. She very much. regrette< the loss of the newspaper arnd sal< 8he had tried to replace it. It i quite probable that many copies o this sketch of her father were pre served in scrap books and it may be that some one will see this who cai replace that loss for her. It woul< be graefll appreciated. A Large Family. In reply to an expression of sui prise at the fact that she was s young for a "Real Daughter," sh laughed and said that she was th youngest child of a third wife. Jo Griffin's first wife was a Miss Burn: his ) nd a widow, Mrs. Benson, hi third, Miss Nancy Black. of Ander son. In all he had 21 children, twelv of whom, Mrs. Monroe said, live to maturity. She knew personall only twelve of her brothers and sis ters. She had no whole sister, an one half-brother, who died in infanc: Mrs. Monroe expressed some mort fication that she did not know mor about her father's life. "But," sh said, "young folks will be young, an I suppose in those days I was alway for a good time and 'thought might little about my family connectior and such." Considering that h( father was 74 years old at the tim of her birth and that her mother die in her infancy, and her father in he 15th year, it is not remarkable th; she is dependent on the memory < others for much of her knowledg of her father's life. Mrs. Monroe a very animated talker and has fund of dry humor. In the cours of our conversation the subject matrimony came up -as it will d S-me remark of hers led me to sal "So you believe that all girls are duty bound to get married." "Oh, no," she flashed back, "b1 marriage is a very good thing f< a girl who can not do any better." When urged to tell something abol - herself, she insisted that there w not a thing to tell, that she ha worked hard all her life, and no a( ventures had ever befallen her. SI was born in 1835. She and her fathe after her mother's death, made the home with her sister, Mrs. v -lia East. She was a lively child and n( I fond of "sitting around" listening i r war stories-especially since so mar of them were repulsive to her. Aft, her father died, she lived with h( - sisters until her marriage at 22. H( husband was of Scotch origi His parents were first cousins, bol named Monroe. They emigrat< from Scotland to South Carolin When h'er house burned dow one loss nuch regretted was a tr I mendous chest which they ha brought across with them. I asked her how she spelled Moi roe, with an a or a u. I suppose :le=rved it-she gave me a look withering scorn and remarked car lessly to the wall behind me th there was only one way. She spol of the pronunciation of the name als and expressed strong disapproval te pronunciation affected by son people with the accent on the fir syllable. Her Married Life. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe were marri< in 1837 and went to house keeping a big old time square log house wi a shed built on. This was connect< with another of similar style in ti back yard. In this latter they ate ar cooked. They brought up all the Schildren in this house. But the far ily was large and increased prosperi Sled them to tear it down and build Inew house. They built a large cor fortable house. This was the hou rwhich in 1903 was burned down. No they have a very convenient new cc tage in which Mrs. Monroe and ha -two youngest children live. Her oth fchildren are all married and her hu Sband has been dead about ten year In all she had eight children: Pa line. Mrs. Templeton, now dead; Le a, Mrs. Shockley, living near Gra SCourt: Effie. Mrs. Burns, of Bark Idale; Sudie, Mrs. Zimmermon. IEnoree; Joseph Marion, who marri< Miss Emma Boyd, and lives at Mi tton; Duckett, who married a Mi Connor, and lives in Edgefield cou: ty; Sallie and Vernon, the son ar daughter still at home. Remembering her allusion to ti war between the states I asked h< about it. Her husband served durir 'the entire war most faithfully and si was left at home with her four babil to care for. Before the war clos< she had had to work in the field, chc Iwood, cook, wash, scrub, do ever; Ithing, in fact, that there was to 1 Sdone, with a very old negro wom2 ffor her only assistant. When we e: -claimed over this she said she had a Sways been vigorous and it nev 1seemed to hurt her. She believes all seriousness that she has grov does not seem to care to do very - much hard work. I told her that the average woman e would not be alive to do anything e iif she had been in her place. But e she laughed at me. ;, She has a daughter who is a grand s mother and they are going to have a -"four generations picture" taken. e This will no doubt, be very interest d ing. Lost Certificate. At the time her house burned down d she lost her D. A. R. gold spoon and certificate of membership. It seems probable that this loss could be re e placed. Certainly the certificate e could be duplicated. She laughed at d herself for not remembering the name ' of the chapter to which she belongs: Y She said that her daughter and some S of her friends arranged it and she had r never attended any of the meet e ings, did not know where the meet d ings were held. I suggested to her r that it was very probably the Co t lumbia chapter. She did not know, >f and said she would write to her e daughter and find out. She doubtless s could tell her. a Mrs. John Davis, regent of the e Nfusgrove's Mill Chapter, D. A. R., >f at Clinton, was very eager for her to be one of the charter members of , thax chapter, but she said she did not n know how to go about getting the necessary papers and she was very it busy, so she did not accept Mrs. >r Davis's invitation. Of course, the Clinton "daughters" would have been it proud to number one of the "Real Is Daughters" among their charter .d members, and Mrs. Monroe says she I- would be glad to belong to that chap. le ter, since it is near enough for her to r. attend a meeting occasionally. -t is Ir quite probable that the Clinton ladies In will, with her permission, secure the >t necessary papers and obtain her trans o fer to their roll, but it is too late now y for her to be a charter member. r It seems doubly appropriate that r she should belong to this chapter, r when it is considered that it is the - only chapter whose meetings she can h attend, and that it tikes its name d from a battle in which her father a- fought, Musgrove's Mill. But at the n same time it is not to be forgot*Een - that she is the member of a general .d society every member of which points to her with the proud feeling of pro prietorship. Whether she is trans I ferred to the Musgrove's Mill chap fter or notr will make little differ ence in the interest and affection of t that chapter toward her. AThe Inconsistency Of It. st Rabbi Hirsch, of Portlan-i. Oregon, in his address upon "The~ Educational Problem" at the National Womari Suffrage convention recently held in~ d that city expressed himself strongly, min favor of women having a vote in hall public affairs. He said in part: d"It is a strange anomoly in Ameri can public life that we have given dour schools so largely into the hands iof women. They are expected to teach the children history and patriot vs. et are not considered competent ato vote. WVhile even in Russia or China a woman can be empress, and e or 40 years a woman on the throne of England showed what a Christian w-soman could do in that exalted sta tion, ye eein America a woman cannot even be a constable. "We must have women in the sschools, and -we must have all the children in the schools. Those of us who are not wholly lost to .honesty Iadmit that the way men have con -ducted public affairs needs improve dment. Professor H'untersberg admits that we need a leisure class, and the s only one in America is the women. Look at what they have done in re Sforms, and in securing improved leg islation in many lines. It is they who iepropose laws and pass them, and yet they are not capable to vote. We must gIhave trhe term "people" recast in the Ipublic mind so as to include woman. .,"I appeal for women in the schools. d The woman, because she is a woman, pis less easily corrupted than a man r.who has forgotten that he had a e mother. If we must disfranchise some an body, it had better be most of the emen rather than the women. "Every right goes with a duty. r Women pay taxes and do public ser nn vice, and .hold up before us the stand nn ard of righteousness; and they ought in thave a vote." 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