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succeeded in raising all my children. My son, G. W. Hendrix,

lives at Black Springs, Ark.; Samuel E. Hendrix, lives at
tntimathule, Ark.; B. F. Hendrix lives at Maxwell, I. T.,

and my daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, lives at Big Fork, Ark., and

is happily married to Mr. Liles.

A STORY OF THE LEES.

The visit of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, says the Louisville Courier-
Journal, has started a story which he told on himself several
years ago, and which is a good illustration of the love the
Confederate soldiers bore toward Gen. Robert E. Lee. As it is
well known, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was at the head of the cavalry,
and these were much envied by the infantrymen, who had to

walk through the mud and dust.

After General Robert E. Lee had surrendered, Gen. Fitz-
hugh Lee rode away from Appomattox. While riding through a
lane he met an old North Carolina soldier.

"Ho, there," cried General Lee, "where are you going?"

"I've been off on a furlough and am now going back to join

Gen. Bob Lee," replied the soldier.
"You needn't go back, but can throw your gun away and

return home, for Lee's surrendered."
"Lee's surrendered?"
"That's what I said," said General Lee.
"It must have been that damned Fitz Lee, then. Rob Lee

would never surrender," and the old soldier put on a look of
contempt and walked on.