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Rev. B. Grimsley. She was buried that evening on the place now owned by Mr. John M. Priest. Here my sixth great trouble began.
1 felt that 1 had lost my best friend. 1 now owed $65 in money, and could see no w ay how it was to be paid. At William’s advice 1 quit working about and went with him to making mattresses. The first job we got was at Col. Chas. Green's, from there we went to Mr. Walker Campbell’s, from there to Mr. Robert Bywaters, and so on. We got all the work we could do at Woodville; we worked for Messrs. Yates & Brown, and made but little i while working for them, but . during the summer we paid ; the entire debt 1 owed, and had something left.
In 1855 we left home for Page County, we knocked about Luray and did not get the first job. The next morning we started for home and came four miles and stopped at Mr. Inads. He gave us a job of five or six mattresses to make. After that we got all the work we could do for five or six weeks.
Snowed In
About that time there fell a snow about three feet deep so we concluded to get home as soon as possible but had to wait about three days before the road could be opened so the stage could pass. We then took the stage and started for this side; it cost us five dollars from Luray to Mt. Lebanon; we waded through the snow three miles; we had $30 left after paying all our
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