life so if that tree were cut she would likely be found under where it fell if they insisted on the cutting. That tree was spared that day and so long as Aunt Sallie lived.

She was a devoted member and teacher in the Community Sunday school, later the Cumberland Presbyterian Sunday school. When the Methodist Church was organized here she joined it, but remained in the old Sunday school. One pastor of the Methodists, soon after he came here and heard of her work in the Sunday school, took her to task about being a member of his church and a teacher in another Sunday school and told her he did not think it in accord with her church vows to support, etc. She told him that her grandmother Humphreys, whom she loved dearly, had been a Methodist, and it was a loyalty to that grandmother that caused her to join the Methodist Church, but if he felt that it was not right to the Methodist Church for her to do as she was doing, she would give up her membership in it, as it seemed to her that her work in the Sunday school seemed to have been of more use for Christian good than her church membership. As she was a regular attendant at church services and a generous supporter of the Methodist Church he hastened to apologize and the subject was never brought up again. She taught her class until her death. She treasured such family letters and records as fell into her hands.

Mary [Eliza Howison], youngest daughter of George [William] and Mary Eliza Howison,