The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-09-10
5cIclt GtorD.
From Pe!erson's Magazine
The Genius Of the Family.
BY MARY W. JANNRIN.

anu udu9Il'trS3 Sb!lC vi NHulll hau '9l own
up and all had :waxed strong under
the broad, sheiteying roof OF the great
Orerbury farm house-but their sixth
child, Andrew Jackson, or "Our Andy"
as he was usually dcnOnlinatcd--a bluff,
hearty, good-naturcd rogue of fourteen
precisely, when we first caught sight of
his rubicund, juvenile visagc, one warm
Sunday afternoon i'll his fathers pew in
the Grcenmcadow meeting housc-"Uur
Andy" was considered by the doting
parents as C the genius par crceUcace
Of their multltudiuous Oycrbury troupe.
There were John and Robert, both
grown up, married, and owners of snug
farms adjoining the old homestead !:
sallio and Debbie, respectively wives of
the village blacksmith and she store
keeper--and, by-thc-way, it was thought
that ''Our Debbie' - had made I" likely
match when Leonard Rice, proprietor
OF the " Variety store," at the corner,
came accounting to the Overbury farm ;
then there was a tall, comely, rosy
checked Sue, a bright, smart girl of
seventeen, who attended the academy,
and recited astonishingly hard lessons
s,.icncos al GraalI To bn y' ,'araots. b"3
sor,obow hv somo nroonsa dr dadnot ~"
l,nnur o,l. 10 tLomaal,,s, tla ,o'a 80"
L,1 sot :. ,,, 49, llH. l,
destined to take the lead OF all their
which b,d nnvor vot Jcscon1nJ on INV
sc;nn of tLo Nrnrhnn, ",'''"''N 0l any
Hahn and Rohort ,rd Gallo o,j
Dcbbie wnre vol n,or% %hU ",' I,a " IN
Locn rood ch;nIron ~ tho;n 1.a ''I a"n
Mr. and Mrs Ovcrh,rv worn aIai thnt
tLov woro 60 6. vail ~ 10 >, ~ 5La '., ,II'
Suc WIS nrottv sn,art on1 .ti;,,al,. | - h"i
bv-ond-hyn sIa,d morrr off "nj so,tIa ~,
dr,n +o. i ,ro,,lI H. ,o,n, L,e,na ~
,nnnror tro,,,o .a,,1i t., '., ns,' DN,U. 100
If w[n,n tLon sIn,,IJ .h,, T7o;"a ~, "'"
nynnct rrcnt ,h;nas tn wv tLn pIl ,r'1
AndyEtLn w,iIo 7.r,L of tho 4 %Y'l,' - III
Itw.. cortain tLat tho la ,,iV ,p vII ,,o,.
somc+;nn g nnoa",a ,,, =, iN "'; ;.; "la"t
nrof; s.nr of ,hronn'n,r 1,,S ar ,', ,'''S
his hand and than Jost,;i n" 70 't t,n nI
r,..,.;no crown .,tI.orod ~ ,t fn ~ I ',"
co,in%-rnnn, tLo ,tran ',I -, - I u"l'
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tLat tLo hnr,,.a Ln,,,,I ~ " I<''t i'o'
in tba worli ;: as 1 tta ,.' - 0". d nso'G
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cdn;rn a, e. g, II,.l ls'.'.ou ~ , -nis'
or doc,or or ,n;yta ',' w n 1%; law e.,
tLn frncnnIoav ma, faIt ~ Il, an| = l To-;
heo5. and ,,1as onod y u" J,a !" Lo oI MS
%nir, nv to Ens,;n5 'o "'5 0I L w., o,''. , -
5,y,,ocdoo ,,lan t1,;. r r'a,, lII'- -; '"'
A1I ~ wh;,a .1, e'' ,,,.' 't e'',' ,,
his dn,Iar "nI mnlI.dd I', ,, o.No. IL
Overhnry f,rm cbnnlln', " m, s v,n VIC
II was dooJ"d t th"t 90 at ,l,S suo'esS'
dcst;noJ r. hnoona tho n,aj in"9 wa" |t
ra,n;lr ana fnrthor ' ~ p,o0'Iy u 'ne
onnrooo tLo fan';,,' .c, ""' I'o'0ou ~
Lat tho, n,irL+ 1":,n "'"' e,"l"' IN o:uoi
Inv rnnt;no nf o a., ,.,,'o "I no pIr'i'p
antonod ,,nou ~. ~ "'' I'' 'nou'u oe
49, .uof'h.;a '. 'I.:' law f''t",' ''i ~
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III 'l'',o. 'i''-'n 'no o,e'"" n, name 'nfo
90" l.,, vo''"5 s;no' ''' n netGioie' one
tnn ,,.,gl o t,s,' t 1,i 'ng iah'!iy h'ct III
; ~ 'S", "sS' l00''' "ii'' 'ne ooi'S ol'a-
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o0'ii anu i'"p'i wa hob ncSitalC TO