Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-01-05


was an amateur in music, aud led the choir,
and upon all such matters, as we'll as upon the .
fashions, was supreme authority among the .
girls. One Of the young lady pupils was Mary
lnglelon, the only child Of the wealIhesl plan
ter in the county. She was al the time Of his .
adsen, at the seminary, but fneen years Of age. /
With careful speech and careful unobserved .
manner he soon taught this lady to love him ;
and, ere one year had passed, they were Sc
creily betroihed. When the spring Of 1912
arrived, Colonel lngle,on and wife visited Bal I
timore, and while on their return the steamer .
on which they he'd taken passage came in col ,
lision with vessel 10 the bay, and soon filling, I
sunk, carrying all on board to a waiery tomb.
BY the laws Of the State, the orphan was en-
titled TO a choice Of guardian she chose her
lover and precepior. Three months later she
yielded to his persuasons and became his wife.
Changes soon followed one By one the slaves,
whose ancestors for hundred years had heen
born and had died in that county, were taken
possession Of by rough, strange men, ard ship
ped from a neighboriug port to more Southern
elimes, unih in May, 1873. when his wife
reached her majority, there was but one lef, Of
all Der fathers "peoplc." Thai one was the
nurse who reared her who had been her con
slant eompanion--her almost second mother
Gaves--as We must select some name, VIC give
him this n lieu Of his real one insisted upon
The sale Of tho farm, and a removal to some
Northern State. His wife demoued, and for
months held out against this breaking up Of all
her earlier associations. The sale OF the nurse
was threatened, aud to avoid that, and with
promise that the faithful ncgress should be
freed and en,ailed as the nurse Of her own
three children, the wife consented 10 the sale Of
the farm Ii was sold and the day the wife
signed the deed, the negro nurse was sent to
Richmond
Graves moved with his family 10 a northern
city, where 10 rio,iug and disspaIol he squan-
dered the fortune he had obtained he then re-
tired to an interior town in Pennsylvania, where,
by the profession of his groa, and fcrvid pieiy,
he nsraiia,ed himself iuio a religious society
few months later he formed new congrega-
iion Of which be became the pastor. Here he
continued ioi year or two, when he was cali
ed TO one Of the northern counties in the same
State, to take charge OF a newly organized sect
Of Christians. He soon became popular lee
,urer as well as preacher. Ills lectures were
fllcd with that fiery denuneiaiion, and intrepid
zeal 10 the cause OF regeneration, physical,
moral, aud intellectual, of the whole human
family, tha, all men, even those who rejected
his ianaiicsm, according to him the sincerest
love iof oppressed and enslayed humanity. The
wife, the poor, suffering neglected, beaienw wife,
and mother Of his children, alone knew the
t.,fh 'iEe nSs5ra alo,Tance az cIoiI1a, IN her
self and children. the neglected 6reside. and
the harsh. rongh impreca,ions from her bus-
bands lps. were evidences 10 those who were
aware of tbem. that the man vho preached
freedom abroad practised brutal tyranny AT home.
Ills study was the meeting room for all The
charitable societies of the female portion of his
CONGREGATION. From there his wife was farced
10 excuse herself ON some plea. furnished bv
h,r husband. One of the most active. jealous.
and handsome Of these charitable village mis-.
sionaries was Agnes Norwood-,he younres,
daughter of a retired and wealthy merchant
Sine soon became the leader in these meetings,
and, having command Of money from her faith
er, eclipsed all others in her contributions to
the Rev. Mr. Graves charities. lie then made
her his companion in alleyaiing home distress
es, until. 10 a short time she was oftener in
his company than at home. in the meantime
his wife pined at home she sighed for the old
+ familiar faces which in childhood she had low
ed, and which, now in adversely, were doubly
dear to memory. Accustomed to the absence
of her husband, and knowing that to complain
would draw upon herself cnrses and maledic-
tions, she paid no attention TO the occurrence,
in which a wife, sooner than all others, would