And though their company was to me, in every respect, like that of a brother and sister, yet it fell far short of being like that of a wife.

So I came to the conclusion that it wouldn't do, but that I must have another wife." One sees strikingly, in the above quotation, the softening effect of affliction on the human heart There was a widow in the neighborhood, a very worthy woman, who had lost her husband in the war.

She had two children, a son and a daughter, both quite young.

She owned a snug little farm, and being a very capable woman, was getting along quite comfortably.

Crockett decided that he should make a good step-father to her children, and she a good step-mother for his.