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Show WIVES OF AMERICAN PIONEERS. Composedly Faced Hardships in Company Com-pany of Their Husbands. In regard to tho wives nf army olll cers In tho pioneer das a writer says: "They attended thilr husbands when fighting the IndiniiH. living on Matboats on the tutbtilent Missouri and Mississippi rleis. Ono patriotic woman, tho great-grandmother of Mrs I'red Oiant, had one daughter named .Missouri, who was born on the river of that name; another called Louisiana, fiom the then distant region, re-gion, one son named after Tippecanoe Tippeca-noe Harrison, another railed Anthony Wti)ito, ami still another called Americas Amer-icas after the wholo country. This dear woman hail twice man led In tho nrmy two gallant husbands wrapped in the ling of the Union, she would say, as the tears Mowed down her wrinkled cheeks. She has numerous descendants In the arm) to-day. Col. Den Lockvvood Is a grandson. Lieut. Symmes Iloss a great-grandson nnd thero aro others." |