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Shoffner History.
visited their relatives in Orange County, X. C., the journey being made in a carriage, one of the first of its kind, there being but one more similar to it in the county. This carriage was handmade and valued at $600, being built by Rev. William Jenkins, an expert carriage maker. It was the greatest delight of the children and grandchildren to get to play in and around it, running up and down the folding steps, and admiring its rich, red lining on the inside. It lasted for years, and was finally sold at the sale in IS.")';.
On this trip to North Carolina it took them two weeks elicli way to make the journey. While there, they spent a month with relatives and friends, enjoying again the scenes of their childhood and the place of their birth. Xot many months after returning to their Tennessee home Amelia died?August 24, 1<S4!). She and her husband had lived happily together for thirty-nine years, during which time she had become the mother of twelve children.
Hers was an active career, having the oversight of a large family ; and in the latter years of her life, besides children and grandchildren, she had to see to the comfort of quite a number of families of slaves. This was the time that nearly all cloth was woven on the loom and clothing made by hand; and while most of the actual labor was performed by the negro women, yet it was the housewife?s duty to see that it was done rightly. These duties, and all others, she handled with a resolution that made her mistress of all occasions; and when she was calk'd to the other shore, her absence was deeply mourned by a host of friends, as well as by a loving husband and devoted children.