. Life and travels of Addison Coffin . rd that it wa^ less dangerous forfugitives to escape that way than through Kentucky. After my fathers death many fugitives contin-ued to come to the old home, and my mother wouldadvise and counsel with them as time and opportunityoffered, until brother Alfred and I were old enoughto take the post of danger our father occupied; butthis is anticipating history, and we will go back to■earlier days. My mother died November 3, 1891. Soon afterher death. Dr. Nereus Mendenhall of Guilford Col-lege, wrote a short aucconnt of her life for the ^.Guil-ford Collegian
. Life and travels of Addison Coffin . rd that it wa^ less dangerous forfugitives to escape that way than through Kentucky. After my fathers death many fugitives contin-ued to come to the old home, and my mother wouldadvise and counsel with them as time and opportunityoffered, until brother Alfred and I were old enoughto take the post of danger our father occupied; butthis is anticipating history, and we will go back to■earlier days. My mother died November 3, 1891. Soon afterher death. Dr. Nereus Mendenhall of Guilford Col-lege, wrote a short aucconnt of her life for the ^.Guil-ford Collegian,^ which was copied in OhristinnWorker- for January 14, 1892, which may come inplace here. Alethea Coffin was born at Big Spring, twomiles west of Greensboro, Guilford county, N. C,on the 16th of April, 1798. Her husbands name wasVestal Coffin; her marriage with him was on the 27thof November, 1817. In the fall of 1826 they wereboth sick, and up(m his death she was left with foursmall children, the oldest eight years old, the young-. ALETHEA COFFIN. OF ADDISON COFFIN. 25 est two. Greatly weakened by sickness and theshock given by her husbands death, the fall work notdone, the winter clothing not prepared, com not gatli-ered, the prospect before her was, indeed, a gloomyone. Some of her children yet remember many a sadday of that winter; many a time of shivering by asmall fire, the mother sick, the oldest boy hardly ableto carry wood, the daughter not able to do much in theway of cooking, no wonder that sometimes they allcried until late at night. It was in this dark winter that the Lord her prayers for help. Ever after she neverdoubted, never faltered, never stopped for any mis-fortune, failure in crops, loss of stock or betrayal oftrust. She never hesit-ated to divide her scanty meanswith the poor and hc^meless; many a sick and homelessboy was taken in. washed, nursed and cared fox,clothed with the garments of her own children, whiieshe washed and mended his, Her
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