Annals of our ancestors; one hundred and fifty years of history in the ...

WHAT THE YEARS HAVE BROUGHT 325
period of youth, and it was but a beautiful consummation
when they were married in St. Cloud.
Estella and Harry have never been selfish in their home
life, but have shared it with more than one who has had need
of what their home and lives could pive. There are young
people who think of that California home as of the home of
parents, and in Estella is a portion of the spirit of our mother.
She has ever been interested in educational matters. She
taught both before and after she was married, and for the love
of it. She is a graduate of the St. Cloud Normal School, and
is still deeply interested in educational matters. In Riverside
Estella is a member of the school board, and at the last election
received more votes than any other candidate voted for that
election. Julia has the womanly home-keeping abilities, and
is the comfort of her parents in an unusual degree — loyal
and true she lives her life, rewarding all that has ever been
done for her in a life of devotion. I take comfort in my
namesake.
As I have been writing these annals I have often paused to
regret that so much of our family history has been lost in the
flight of a hundred years. Almost everything authentic has
been handed down by our father, who had a retentive historic
memory as well as a fine verbal one. He retained his faculties
in a remarkable manner until his death, in his eighty-second
year.
When Datus and Ida removed from Pearl Lake Place to
Indianapolis he came to our home, which was then in Meigs
County, Ohio. He spent a summer with us, and we could see
that he was longing to be back at Pearl Lake, or again fancying
Cincinnati would help him to be more contented. He
finally decided to go to the nearer of the home places, and so
he paid a visit to Cincinnati. There his old friend, James
Challen, introduced him to Mrs. Zelinda Wood, a homeopathic
physician. She was a woman who in early life, through much
energy and exertion, had obtained a good education; she had
studied French and prepared herself to be a teacher, as well
as taking her medical degree. She went as a missionary
teacher and physician to the French provinces of Canada