Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-10-18
Continued from last week.


BY this time the members of our
family had nearly all departed from
under the old roof tree to shift for
themselves. Anna. was married and
was living at Janesville, where her
husband was engaged in the drug
business. Samuel was at Grand juno
ton. and Schuyler at Waukon, both
of them clerks in. drug stores. Iowa
and Lucy were in Colorado, and
Harry was student in Upper Iowa
University, from which he afterward
graduated with honor, leaving only
Marion at home.
On the cath of October, 1894, our
daughter, Iowa, who had returned
from Colorado, was married at our
home in Decorah, to Mr.. Edward
Lincoln Jennings, youngest son of
Mr.. Samuel Jennings of GAINESVILLE,
Iowa.
On the 25th of May, 1895, the
wedding of our Second son. Schuyler,
and Miss Maude Hurlburt, daughter
of DIR. and Mrs. Celia Hurlburt OF
Marion, Iowa, was solemnized at the
home of Mrs. Hurlburt in that city.
The ceremony was conducted by the
writer, assisted by the Rev. DR.. Hurl-
burt, now pastor of the Delaware
avenue Methodist Episcopal church
of Buffalo, New York.
CHAPTER XIV.
During the winter of 1895, feeling
the need of some relaxation from my
arduous toll, spent a few weeks in
Florida with my sister, Mrs. Messmer
and her husband. | had not been
in the south since the close of the
war and was therefore unacquainted
with the changes that had taken
place during the intervening years,
except so far as | had learned of
them through the papers and from
people who had some knowledge Of
them.
Leaving Decorah with two of my
friends, who, like myself, were head
ed for the south, we proceeded to
st. Louis, ana from there via Louis
VILE and Nashville to Atlanta and to
Montgomery. the birthplace OF the
rebellion. My friends had left the
train at Atlanta, so proceeded alone
to Jacksonville, and from there to
Cisco, where my relatives had made
their home.
/ was heartily welcomed by my
sister and her husband, who gave me
to understand that | was there TO
enjoy myself and was to make the
most of my sojourn in the south,
which / proceeded to do at once.
The climate was magnificent. fiow-
ers in bloom on every hand, the air
vocal with the songs of birds and
the melodies of the negroes. This was
summer in mid-winter. Transplaned
in just a few hours from the frosts,
SHOWS and wintry blasts of the
north, where dearth and death were
everywhere rife, chilling the very
pith in your body, to the glorious
sunshine of that semi-tropic cline,
Is indeed grateful migration in the
month of February. Also 1t is an
impressive suggestion of that resur-
rection, which shall overtake these
perishing bodies of ours, when they
that are in the grave shall hear his
voice and come forth, Changed and
fashioned like unto His own glorious
body"
st. Augustine, touched by the
fingers of time. where the old has
not yet been supplanted by the new,
said to be the oldest city In the
United States, is surely a place OF
antiquities. The site OF which Ponce
de Leon visited in 1912, in search OF
the tabled Fountain of Youth, was
permanently settled by Don Pedro
Menendez de Ooiles some fifty years
later. who with 1900 followers took
possession of the country in the name
Of his sovereign. King Philip IL. Of
stood, oil Fort Marian