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I was (I had been well acquainted with Judge T.)
He still did not remember me. Don't you
remember plain Arthur T. Taul of Fayette
with his broad brimmed hat? said Mr. C. to Judge
T. I don't remember him, was the answer.
Well indeed, said Mr. C. to Judge T., I had no
idea that your memory had given way so
much. Strange that any man who had known
old Mr. Taul, should ever have forgotten him.
My father was a rigid economist, plain & pragmatic
in every thing. Never went in debt. I have often
heard him say after paying his annual tax "Now
thank God, I am out of debt. I don't owe a "shil
ling" [shilling] to any man in the world". He never was
sued in his life. Being easy & independent in his
circumstances & having a conscience, void of offence
he passed quietly thru life & died suddenly at
the house of bro. Benjamin in Clarke County, Ky
on the day of 1812.
My mother died at her old residence on the
day of 1811. She was a woman of
uncommon intellectual powers. I never knew
any person whose memory was so retentive.
It was a complete Register of all passing events:
births, deaths, marriages, etc.. She had no difficulty
in remembering the names, ages & of all her
relations, and I regret that she died before I
felt the interest that I ought to have done
in obtaining information about our family.
She was a woman of uncommon industry
and altogether domestic in her habits: she sel
dom [seldom] went from home, except to "Meeting"
(church) being as before stated a member of
the Baptist Church. She was in every respect
suited to be the wife of my father. Equally, plain
& frugal, congenial in their tastes, & habits, they
agreed in every thing & they seemed to live alone for
their sons, to whom they were devotedly attached.
For many years before my mother's death, she
was entirely blind, yet she could sew and