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Title: Dr. Owens-Adair; some of her life experiences
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Owens-Adair, Bethenia, 1840-1926
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Oregon
Publisher: (Portland, Or. : Mann & Beach, printers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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hich I presume was trueof a large majority of the wives and mothers who crossedthe plains as pioneers. The movement was against thejudgment and feelings of Mrs. Morrison. She told meso, in so many words, but never alluded to the subject againuntil she had been several years in Oregon, and then shetold me she was satisfied with the change, on her husbandsaccount; but she believed that he, himself, was not. No person seeing Mrs. Morrison in her daily routineof duties would have supposed she was engaged in an en-terprise her judgment did not endorse. She was no com-plainer. Wliile sociable, she was not an excessive talker.She was at this time in the prime of life, and, thinking forwords to characterize her in her relations to her familyand others, those of Proverbs xxi :3o, come to mind: Strength and honor are her clothing. Her neighbors and friends must have been very numer-ous, for during the last two weeks of her residence in Mis-souri there was an almost incessant stream of visitors,
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Two OF My Babies Grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Jeffers Great Grandchildren of Mrs. Sar.^h Hurfurd Jeffers Some of Hek Like Experiences. 183 many of whom came from a distance, and all the shifts offrontier life were brouii^ht into play to provide beds for all. The reason firm, the temperate will.Endurance, foresight, strength and skill;A perfect woman, nobly plannedTo warm, to comfort, and command;And yet a spirit still and bright,With something of an angel light. SARAH HURFORD JEFFERS. Sara Hurford Jeflfers, widow of the late Joseph Jeffers,was born September 21, 1808, near Worcester, Ohio. Thefollowing incidents of her life were given to the writer bythis wonderfully active and worthy lady, in April last, whilevisiting at the home of her son, E. C. Jeffers, whose beau-tiful home is very appropriately named Grand View.She said: We were married in Wheeling, West Virginia, Novem-ber 29, 1829. My parents were both natives of old Vir-ginia, my father dying when I was quite young. M

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