Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1879 — Mrs. Abercombi’s Family. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Abercombi’s Family.

Mrs. Betsy Abercombi, who died recently in Laurens county, 8. C., was one of the very few who could say on a given occasion. “Rise, daughter, go to thy daughter and tell her that her daughter hath a daughter.’’ Mrs. Abercombi’s daughter Sallie is a widow with a grown daughter, making “four generations and three widows who lived in the same house. The two old ladies were not able to do anything. The two younger ladies did all the field work, plowing and hoeing the crops. They had made good crops and supported themselves since the war by their own labor without the assistance of any male labor.’’ The United States Consul *t Rochelle, France, says all the grapevines in that district must be completely destroyed. All devices for arresting the progress of the phylloxera pest having felled, the only remedy left is to import vines from America, which are proof against phylloxera.