Excerpt from A Narrative of Life and Travels in Mexico and British Honduras

Ou the first of December, 1864, I was living about twenty miles south of Petersburg, Virginia, near Stony Creek Depot, sawing lumber and grinding corn, at a large steam mill but before night nearly everything I had was stolen, or burned up, and in a few hours I was reduced from a comfortable inde pendence to real destitution. But I did not repine, but exerted myself to the utmost, to support my family and pay my debts, and soon after the Sur render, I went to work and fixed up the saw mill, and hoped that at current rates, I might yet be able to saw lumber enough to pay out. But lumber soon tell to a price not sufficient to pay expenses, and as soon as I saw this, I went to a most honorable lawyer, and asked him to make a deed of the most equitable character, and sell me out, {on thebenefit of my creditors. This was done, and we received only the allowance made by law to in solvent debtors.

This was in May, 1866, and I was at a loss to know what to do. I could hear of no place where I could be supported, as a preacher, and my presid ing elder told me that he knew not what to advise, as the times were such that he hardly knew how to advise himself.

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