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vived-; and is an imbecile, in consequence -- Della died
in Spring of 1893 after many years of suffering imbecility --
Miss Chaffa is (beside her) the only surviving member of the
family-; she is well educated-, & a fine looking woman -- is
a teacher in East Fla-; passed the prime of life about-; &
has kept single for the sake of her poor afflicted sister --
There were 14 or 15 children in all-; the above are all that
survive -- (Miss Chaffa left alone now 1893)

I was pleasantly situated there -- Major Coe lived about
1 1/2 miles up the River from us-, on his Tony plantation, on which
he had a large force of negroes-; there and on his Mount
Pleasant place, a few miles farther up -- He was a venerable
old gentleman, "of the old Virginia school"-, very polite &
dignified in his manners -- He rode over his plantations
every day on a large, gentle bay horse named Bob -- In the
afternoons he generally sat in a big easy chair in his hall,
where the breeze was pleasant, and got some of us younger
folk to read the Washington papers to him, or looked over
them himself -- At the time I settled at Ochesee, the Major's
two sons Jesse and Will were living with him; both fine young
men by nature genial, amiable, generous-, with everything to
make life bright and happy -- Jesse had been to Transylvania
& Charlottesville universities -- & had everything given him that
money could put within his reach -- Will's health had pre-
vented his going off to school, but he was raised with every
want satisfied-; the old gentleman made large crops of cotton,
& they were wealthy -- Both young men though, alas, made