These they traded with visiting Texas farmers for vegetables. A lieutenant's commission had been made out for him, but he could not be mustered in under it. At the close of the war he returned to civil life and gradually assumed the duties and responsibilities, in all of which he has made the reputation that can be made in quiet life that is more enduring than public notoriety. There are rewards in farm life if one makes the farm the prime object. It develops men peculiarly.
Reflection is more prominent than activity.
The wide expression of sympathy with his family on his sudden death showed the place he filled in the hearts of his neighbors. It had been committed to his memory forty years ago against this trying hour, and was his greatest comfort. His life has been a joyous, sanguine, happy life. It has been very clear of selfish effort. He could have been a wealthier man.