. A genealogical record of the descendants of Henry Stauffer and other Stauffer pioneers : together with historical and biographical sketches . dressed. This, togetherwith white kid slippers, she remembered. The fatherwent back to France to adjust his property vessel in which he sailed was lost, and the oldservants raised the little girl up. They did not knowthe friend of Mr Williams or his wife in America orFrance. The father of this daughter left money forher care until his return. Had he not taken hisvaluable property papers with him she would haveheired a fortune, but with the ve
. A genealogical record of the descendants of Henry Stauffer and other Stauffer pioneers : together with historical and biographical sketches . dressed. This, togetherwith white kid slippers, she remembered. The fatherwent back to France to adjust his property vessel in which he sailed was lost, and the oldservants raised the little girl up. They did not knowthe friend of Mr Williams or his wife in America orFrance. The father of this daughter left money forher care until his return. Had he not taken hisvaluable property papers with him she would haveheired a fortune, but with the vessel the passengers,crew, and her father with his papers, all went downand were lost. In after years her children never let her get anewspaper to read that gave an account of a marinedisaster or the sinking of a ship, because she wouldcry a week about her father after reading the all probability she had heard from old uncle andauntie (as she called the old servants) considerableabout her early life after her fathers death, but shewas taken out of apparent health to 15 years ofincapacity by a stroke of paralysis. When her hus-. Dr. I. M. Shepherd(See page 78.) DESCENDANTS OF RALPH STOVER 121 band had learned what had happened to his active,faithful wife, he was so overcome that he was takenwith spasms of the heart and died in a day or twoafter her seizure. She could only say a few disjointedwords and never could read or write after the para-lytic stroke. Too much cannot be said of these old people (theold servants) who took the place of father and motherto a little child. She was educated and raised in thenicest of ways. She had the finest of china and linen,and there are blankets and feather beds in the familythat show conclusively that the old servants reportedcorrectly of the taste and wealth of her parents. Shehad her preserve closet that she and her daughter(the wife of the Hon William M Price) kept con-stantly filled with the delicacies of the season. Shewent th
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