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Nov. 7th .- Call on E. T. & G. R. R. stockholders $12.50 on each share of stock by E. D. Keyes, president.
From Athens Post for the year 1852, March 26th. Call by Thos. H. Calloway, president E. T. & G. R. R. $5.00 per share for stock.
From the best information obtainable it is probable that the track laying of the E. T. & G. R. R. reached
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Sweetwater about April 1, 1852. A place for the "Y" to be used as a turn-table had already been graded. It occupied the place about where the circle of the north- east fountain now stands.
The depot also was under course of construction in anticipation of the arrival of the railroad. This build- ing as I remember it was about 40x100 feet or more. This was considered a good sized depot for a place which was then only a dot on the map. Philadelphia had been a town then a number of years, Loudon was then known by the name of Blair's Ferry.
Mr. W. P. Jones, of Pond Creek Valley thinks that the laying of the track to Loudon proceeded at about the rate of 1-4 mile per day; that being the case the track laying must have reached the river near Blair'sFerry the latter part of May.
I find in the Athens Post of August 10, 1852, the fol- lowing schedule :
Up Train
P. M.
Leave Dalton at.
2:30
Varnell's
2:57
Red Clay
3:15
Blue Spring
3:42
Cleveland
3:54
Charleston
4:30
Riceville
4:51
Athens
5:15
Mouse Creek
5:35
Sweetwater
5:57
Philadelphia
6:15
Arrive at Loudon
.6:35
Down Train A. M.
Leave Loudon
4:00
Philadelphia 4:21
Sweetwater 4:59
Mouse Creek 5:03
Athens
5:21
Riceville
5:45
Charleston
6:06
Cleveland
6:42
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Blue Spring
6:54
Red Clay 3:15
Varnell's
8:03
Arrive at Dalton
8:30
Thomas H. Calloway, president. (July 23, 1852.)
The railroad depot at Philadelphia was larger than the depot at Sweetwater and was built about the same time as the depot at Sweetwater. The depot at Sweet- water was burned by General Wheeler during the raid in 1864 on account of Federal supplies being contained in it.
The London depot was first built at the riverside, a steep grade running down at the river from the railroad. The depot at the present location was not built until after the railroad bridge was finished at Loudon.
It may be interesting to note the following tables taken from the Loudon Free Press Saturday, January 15, 1853:
"We have been kindly furnished by Mr. Pritchard, chief engineer, with the following table of elevations of various points upon the line of the E. T. & G. R. R. above the level of the sea :
Dalton, Ga. 771 Ft.
Varnell's
828 “
Tennessee Line 837 “
Cleveland 778 “
Charleston
718 "
Low water, Hiwassee River
684 "
Athens
993 “
Mouse Creek Summit
1,023
Sweetwater
920
Philadelphia
871 ‹‹
Loudon
814 “
Low Waters of the Tennessee River
738 “
Lenoirs
786 “
Summit of Knox and Roane Line 882 "
Turkey Creek 809 “
Water of Do. 778 “
Stones
834 “
Heiskell's
898 “
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McClellan's Summit 972 “
Water of Second Creek. 870 “
Knoxville
898 “
THE FIRST PLAN OF THE TOWN OF SWEETWATER.
Was laid off by I. T. Lenoir entirely on his own land. This was a part of the northeast quarter of section 2, township 3, range 1, east of the basis line. The land that was included was as follows:
Commencing at a point in the centre of the E. T. & Ga. Railroad track perpendicularly above the north bank of Sweetwater Creek; thence down the creek along the bank to Daniel Heiskell's line; thence north with Heis- kell's line to the middle of the Fork Creek Road; thence along Biggs' and Mayes' line crossing the railroad west to the Pond Creek Road; thence southeastwardly with that road to Monroe and High streets and the Athens Road; thence with the east side of that road 190 feet to a point on the south side of street; thence in a direction parallel to Monroe Street southeasterly to Depot Street and the railroad lot; thence with that plot southwestwardly to corner of the same; then at a right angle with the line of railroad plot southeasterly to the centre of the creek directly under the middle of the railroad track; thence to the point of beginning.
THE PLAN OF THE STREETS.
The streets in the first plan of the town ran parallel and at right angles to the general direction of the rail- way tract through the railroad plot, except Monroe Street. This last named street starting at the creek next to the bridge and Heiskell's line ran directly west to the railroad track, thence in a southwesterly direction the same as the other streets in the plan of the town. It was 66 feet wide. Most of the other streets were from 30 to 33 feet wide. The street on the east side of the railroad was called Railroad Street. That on the depot side of the railroad was named Depot Street. The next street west, running parallel with the railroad, was Oak Street, then High east of the Female College. Com- mencing at Monroe Street and going northeast the first
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street is Wright, then Walnut, then Morris running by the Trust and Savings Bank.
In this first plan of the town of Sweetwater I. T. Le- noir laid off 65 lots. Those fronting on Depot Street were intended and sold for business houses. The num- bering of the lots was commenced on the corner of Oak and Morris. Number one was the lot now occupied by the J. A. Miller residence and the numbers ran south- westerly along Oak Street to twelve inclusive. Then from fifteen across from the Beard residence and going to twenty-eight northwardly along Depot Street to the post-office lot inclusive.
The number of the lots in the Lenoir tract were about equal on each side of the railroad.
The first recorded sale of any lot is that to N. W. Haun and William Stakely on the 14th of May, 1852. The number of the lot was 18 and was the location now oc- cupied by the Sweetwater Pharmacy, the Ledbetter Store and the Cunningham Jewelry Store. It was 80 feet front on Depot Street, sometimes incorrectly called Main Street. The next sale was on September 30, 1852, to Wilson Parker of lots Nos. 11, 12, 15 and 16. These lots were located between the Sweetwater Hotel lot and the Sweetwater Creek, two of them fronting on Depot Street.
In about 1854 J. C. Vaughn purchased the property now occupied by the Hyatt Hotel and built a hotel and storehouse, and he resided there with his family until about the time of the Federal occupation of this country in 1863. The majority of these lots owned by I. T. Le- noir were sold previous to 1860, though in many in- stances deeds were not made for several years later on. He took great pains to sell only to those persons whom he knew to be responsible business men and good cit- izens, and some were sold with the proviso that no whis- key or intoxicants were to be sold on them.
From the country around came the Pattons, Rowans, Taylors, Robert and Bates Carter, the former of whom afterwards went to Texas. From Madisonville came S. Y. B. Williams, William McClung, Robert and Ander- son Humphrey, the Clarks and James A. Wright, the last named being in business with James A. Coffin.
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From Philadelphia came John W. Goddard, Frank Bo- gart and Charles Cannon. G. G. Stillmann and J. J. Shel- don came here from New York, and resided at this place to the time of their deaths. Thus the town of Sweet- water not only became noted on account of its location, but for the high class of its citizens. Names here men- tioned are such as I recall to my mind at present-others moved here who made equally as good citizens.
WALTER FRANKLIN LENOIR,
Son of William Ballard and Elizabeth Avery Lenoir, of Lenoirs, Tenn., was born November 21, 1816. He died September 1, 1878. He first married Elizabeth Campbell Goddard, daughter of T. C. Goddard of Coun- ty Line, Monroe County, on November 16, 1841. She was born April 2, 1821. She died January 10, 1855.
When a young man he entered into the mercantile business with his brother, I. T. Lenoir, at Lenoirs. About the time of his first marriage he came to Philadelphia, Tenn., and purchased land there. In 1853 and 1854, ac- cording to advertisements in the Loudon Free Press, he was in the mercantile business at Philadelphia, in part- nership with his brother-in-law, John W. Goddard. He also owned and operated one of the few saw mills on Sweetwater Creek. He owned a large body of pine land east of Philadelphia from which he manufactured lum- ber. He built the brick residence in the grove just east of Philadelphia in 1853.
The children of W. F. and Elizabeth Goddard Lenoir were :
1. Julia Ann Campbell, b. September 6, 1842; d. May 22, 1848.
2. Walter Thomas, b. August 8, 1845.
3. William Goddard, b. August 23, 1847; d. March 21, 1915.
4. Thornton Pickens, b. July 23, 1851.
Walter Thomas Lenoir married Loua Edwards, of Little Rock, Ark. She was born September 30, 1851, the daughter of Richard and Susan Hilder Edwards. W. T. Lenoir was a student at Hiwassee College when the Civil War began. He left school when under 16 years of age, and joined the Confederate army. He was a member
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Co. F, 43rd Regt. Tennessee volunteer infantry, un- der the command of Colonel Gillespie. He was in the siege of Vicksburg and was captured and paroled there. He was soon exchanged and served during the remainder of the war as a scout and as a member of the reorganized 43rd Tennessee Regiment. He was with the Confeder- ate forces when Colonel Frank Wolford, commanding a brigade of Federal cavalry, was defeated on the morn- ing of October 20, 1863, in what is known as the Battle of Philadelphia. Colonel Wolford was making his head- quarters at the residence of W. F. Lenoir, father of W. T. Lenoir, at the time of the battle. W. T. Lenoir influ- enced the commander of the Confederate battery to so fire the guns, which were located on a hill about 600 yards distant, as not to do injury to the house or hurt any of the family. It was not a common experience in war for a man to be engaged in a real battle around his father's house. (For a more extended account of this engage- ment see another part of this book.) W. T. L. was with General Vaughn in. the Shenandoah Valley campaign, and previously with him in upper east Tennessee. He surrendered and was paroled at Kingston, Ga., on May 12, 1865.
He located at Humboldt in the western part of the state in 1868, where he operated a hotel in the town, and . a farm nearby. He was mayor of Humboldt in 1882. In 1886 he bought his grandfather's, T. C. Goddard's farm, in McMinn County near Reagan's Station. He moved his family there in 1887. While living in McMinn he was a member of the county court from 1888 to 1890, when he moved to Sweetwater. He was a member of the Monroe County Court 1893-1911. He was mayor of Sweetwater in 1915.
The children of W. T. and Loua E. Lenoir were:
(1) Frank, b. at Humboldt, Tenn., July 12, 1874. He married Annie Powell, of Atlanta, Ga., June 7, 1906. He is a manufacturer of tin and iron wares at Houston, Tex. Their children are: Louise and Frank, b. in 1907 and 1912.
(2) Caroline, b. in Humboldt, Tenn., July 4, 1876. She was married to Clarence, son of John S. and Theresa Young, on January 22, 1905. He is cashier of the Bank
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of Sweetwater, Tenn. They reside near Sweetwater. Their children are: Lenoir, b. June 5, 1906; Katherine, b. March 1, 1908; Clarence E., Jr., b. November 22, 1909; Loua Theresa, b. March 5, 1913.
(3) Hattie, youngest daughter of W. T. and Loua E. Lenoir, b. September 5, 1879.
(4) Richard, their youngest son, b. August 14, 1881. He married Idelle May Waldrop, of Jonesboro, Ga., on April 10, 1916. They. live in Sweetwater.
William Goddard Lenoir, second son of W. F. and Elizabeth G. Lenoir attended, in 1865, 1866 and 1867, school at the Dancing Branch Academy six miles south of Sweetwater. This school was under the charge of Prof. A. W. Wilson, afterward an M. A. of the Univer- sity of Virginia at Charlottesville. Afterwards he was three years at the University of Virginia, from October, 1867 to July, 1870. He graduated there in several schools. In this university was developed that inde- pendence of thought and action which stood him in good stead throughout his life and contributed greatly to his success. After completing his education he taught school for two or three years at Johnson City, Tenn.
On October 14, 1871, he was married (first) to Alice Osborne, daughter of Thomas and Evaline Lackey Os- borne, of Pond Creek Valley. She was born October 8, 1852, and died at Johnson City on June 20, 1874. She is buried at Stekee Cemetery near Loudon. There were two children, the youngest, a son, dying in infancy in 1874. Their daughter Lucy, born July 15, 1872, married R. H. Kizer, of Philadelphia. He was born in Blount County, Tenn., in 1858. They have three children: Le- noir, b. May 1, 1897 ; Alice, b. August 16, 1904, and John, b. February 13, 1913.
On September 5, 1876, W. G. L. was married (second) to Fannie Amelia, daughter of Eli and Elizabeth Childs Adkins. They resided principally at the old Lenoir homestead until 1884, when they moved to the Adkin residence near the spring in Philadelphia. They resided there at the time of his death in March, 1915.
He was a large real estate owner both in the country and in town, especially in Knoxville, and had a keen ap- preciation of their valnes. He was a dairyman and an
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extensive raiser of Register Jersey cattle. He was a jus- tice of the peace and an influential member of the Lou- don County Court from 1884 to 1912. He was a firm advocate and supporter of good schools and good roads. He always contended that they were worth more than they cost though they might not be economically carried on or constructed.
He was a joint representative from Knox and Loudon counties in the Fifty-sixth General Assembly, elected on the Fusion ticket. He was an ardent prohibitionist and voted and worked for all measures for the suppression of the whiskey traffic while he was a member of the Leg- islature. He was a great friend of the colored race, especially of the old Lenoir darkies. His hospitality to guests and visitors was recognized and remarked upon wherever he was known.
The children of W. G. and Fannie A. Lenoir were:
(1) Israel Pickens, b. September 14, 1877. He mar- ried Cate Willson (her mother was a Cate) on November 14, 1901. They reside in Phoenix, Ariz. Their children are: Mary Francis, b. October 7, 1902, and Avery Thorn- ton, b. October 7, 1903.
(2) Emma Elizabeth, b. November 26, 1879. Mar- ried Robert Lee Mims on November 2, 1898. They live in Philadelphia. They have one child, Robert L., b. April 22, 1900.
(3) Walter Avery, b. November 13, 1883. Married Alice Comer, of Comer, Ga., October 23, 1909. She was born August 17, 1890. Four children have been born to them: William Alexander, b. April 18, 1911; Avery Comer, b. July 15, 1913; d. -; Avery Fulcher, b. September 14, 1914; d. ; and Francis Elizabeth, b. June 29, 1916. W. A. Lenoir is a planter and resides at Comer, Ga.
(4) Kate Lothrop, b. September 26, 1885. She was married to Edward Young, of Mitchell County, N. C., on May 25, 1908. He died on September 9, 1909. He left one child, Edward, born June 7, 1909.
(5) Eli Adkins, b. August 8, 1888. He married Eva Marler, of Lebanon, Tenn., on June 5, 1911. She was born at Murfreesboro, Tenn., on September 3, 1890.
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They have two children: E. A. Lenoir, Jr., b. April 3, 1913, and Barbara Francis, b. May 26, 1915.
(6) William Goddard, b. December 2, 1890. Lives at Philadelphia, Tenn.
(7) Charles Henry, b. September 26, 1892; d. Novem- ber 14, 1896.
(8) Thomas Penland, b. February 16, 1895; d. Jan- uary 17, 1901.
Thornton Pickens Lenoir, fourth child of W. F. and Elizabeth Goddard Lenoir, attended Emory and Henry College, where he graduated in 1874. In September of that year he went to Goliad, Texas, where he took up the study of law. Owing to a breakdown in health he gave up law and went into the cattle business at Refugio, Texas, where he was married in 187- to Lua McCamp- bell. Their children were: Thornton, who died in child- hood, and Elizabeth, who married and died a few years afterwards leaving one child, a daughter. T. P. Lenoir lives at Victoria, Tex.
W. F. Lenoir married (second) Harriette Elizabeth Osborne, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Cathey Os- borne (both formerly of Haywood County, N. C.), at Germantown, Tenn., on July 7, 1858. She was born at Asheville, N. C., on December 11, 1830. Died May 21, 1907, at her residence at Philadelphia, Tenn. This mar- riage was a remarkably happy one. Mrs. Hattie Lenoir, besides being a cultivated and accomplished woman, was one who drew many friends to her by the sincerity of her hospitality in a home from which no one was ever turned away without a gracious reception, and help, if in distress. She was a devoted member of the Pres- byterian church while he was a zealous member of the Methodist Church, South; yet on that account there was never a jar or misunderstanding. Their house was ever a home for the ministers of both denominations. The Methodist church and parsonage at Philadelphia are monuments to his zeal. and liberality. They had a beautiful home in a beautiful situation and lived a beau- tiful life. I know of no word that fitly expresses their relationship and conduct.
Her end was as serene as her life. She died while asleep without pain or struggle.
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The children of W. F. and Harriette O. Lenoir were: Frank, Rose Summey, Henry and Earnest. These all died in childhood, except Henry L., who was born Decem- ber 6, 1863. He married Annie Yoakum, daughter of Wil- liam Cannon, May 23, 1888. They reside at the old Lenoir homestead one-fourth of a mile east of Philadelphia, Tenn. Their children are: Annie Lee, b. May 21, 1889; William Cannon, b. April 25, 1891; Frank Osborne, b. September 23, 1894; Susan Bogart, b. September 29, 1898, and Robert Henry, b. January 2, 1902.
THE LILLARD FAMILY.
William Lillard was a colonel in the Revolutionary War. His son William was born August 14, 1798. He died in Sweetwater Valley December 18, 1844. Louise, his sister, and daughter of Col. Lillard, married Ben- jamin Routh August 23, 1838. William Lillard, second, who lived near Philadelphia, in Sweetwater Valley, mar- ried Nancy Routh, who was born August 28, 1807. She died at her residence near Philadelphia, July 27, 1899. The children of William and Nancy Lillard were:
1. Andrew Jackson, b. on Island Creek, February 20, 1829.
2. Washington, dead.
3. Louisa Jane, m. Joseph Ragon, October 15, 1851.
4. Caroline, b. 1835. Lives at Philadelphia, Tenn.
5. Murrell, b. 1837.
6. Julia, m. Riley Burns. Died near Philadelphia in 1915.
7. Joseph B., b. 1843.
Andrew Jackson Lillard went to California in 1858. He went to the Indian Diggings and also to Brush Creek. He dug gold most of the time he was in California un- til he returned to Tennessee in 1865.
He married Samantha Taliaferro in 1867. She was the daughter of John Taliaferro. They moved to Fork Creek Valley. She died June 6, 1915, at the age of 67. He is a farmer. Their children are:
John, married in Colorado. Has four children. Lives in Farmington, N. M.
Murrell, lives in Atlanta and is in the employ of Rhodes & Co.
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Nannie, m. Prof. W. T. Russell, Carson & Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn. Mrs. Russell died about 1905 leaving two children.
Mollie, m. C. E. Harris, of Dandridge, Tenn.
Etta Lee, m. A. L. Burem, of Hawkins County. Ad- dress Burem, Tenn.
Murrell Lillard, son of William Lillard, joined the Confederate army and was afterwards captured at Pied- mont, Va., and was taken to Camp Morton, Ind., where he died a prisoner of fever.
Joseph Lillard, youngest son of William Lillard, was a private in Co. D 11th Regt. Tenn. Cav., U. S. A., dur- ing the Civil War, serving twenty months. He is a farmer and lives one mile from Philadelphia. He mar- ried Maggie J. Harrison, of Pond Creek Valley, on March 31, 1885. Their children are:
William F., b. August 2, 1886.
Minnie L., b. April 17, 1890.
Hattie E., b. November 8, 1892.
Joseph Murrell, b. July 24, 1896.
JOHN LOTSPEICH
Was born in Greene County, Tenn., November 9, 1762. He moved to Sweetwater about 1820. He married Mary Ann Earnest of Greene County, on February 18, 1806. She died January 27, 1878 or 1879. She was born De- cember 23, 1789. Mr. Lotspeich was a farmer and built a brick house and settled on the southwest and south- east quarters of section 3 and the northwest and north- east quarters of section 4, township 3 and range 1, east. He was a member of the Methodist church. He died at his residence on April 19, 1825. He and his wife are both buried at County Line Cemetery. Their children · were :
1. Ralph, b. September 6, 1807.
2. Henry L., b. February 10, 1810.
3. Samuel T., b. March 5, 1812; d. April 2, 1847. 6. Christopher Marion, b. October 15, 1815. 10. Amanda, b. Sept. 29, 1827.
4. Felix, was born in Greene County, Tenn., and mar- ried Eliza, a daughter of William Neal. They were members of the Methodist church; he was a farmer.
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They moved to Green (afterwards Henry) County, Mo.
5. Mary Ann Lotspeich was born in Greene County, Tenn. She married Wm. Robertson, who was born on Pond Creek, in Monroe County, Tenn. They moved to Green County, Mo., where he died.
6. Christopher Marion Lotspeich married Susan Shearl, who died about 1873-4. He was a farmer and set- tled near Ottumwa, Iowa. He was drowned in the Iowa River May 26, 1852. Their children were: Nannie, Hen- ry and Julia.
7. Emmeline Lotspeich married Rufus Pickel. (See Pickels.)
8. John W. Lotspeich married Nancy Ann Baker on December 7, 1856. She was born December 26, 1857. Died March 13, 1874, and was buried at Sweetwater Cem- etery. He was a farmer. They moved to Weatherford, Texas. He died at Abilene, Tex., March 4, 1894. Their children are:
Mollie, b. December 19, 1857 ; m. R. W. Ellis.
Florence, b. April, 1859; m. Benton.
Addie, b. April, 1861; m. L. Dempsey; d. Marshall, Tex., in 1911.
Carrie, b. April, 1866. Married Chas. Waters. She is a ranchwoman near Abilene, Texas.
9. Elizabeth J. married J. J. Browder (whom see).
10. Amanda Lotspeich married Francis Y. Jameson on April 29, 1854. They moved to Gentry County, Mo.
11. Chas. W. Lotspeich was born at the Lotspeich resi- dence, near Sweetwater. He married Mary Smith, daughter of Bryant Smith, of Meigs County, in Novem- ber, 1871. She was born May 24, 1847, and died July, 1877. Interred in Sweetwater Cemetery. He was a farmer. In 1883 he moved to Texas, and in 1886 he lo- cated in Jones County, where he died, and was buried near Hawley, October 4, 1907. Their children were:
(1) Bryant, b. 1872, in Sweetwater Valley. Address Hawley, Tex., R. F. D. No. 1.
(2) Thomas J., b. in Sweetwater Valley July 17, 1875. Lives at Hawley, Tex.
(3 &4) Died in infancy and were buried at Sweet- water, Tenn.
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HENRY MAYES.
Birds sing and flowers bloom and shed their fragrance on the summer air. This is but natural; it is expected; as Josh Billings would say it is their business. There are people, now and then, so constituted that they have no desire or appetite to do wrong or take any pleasure in straying into forbidden paths. Their instincts point as sensitively to right and justice as the needle to the mag- netic pole. If they veer from the straight path at all it is but a circumstance of the moment and not to be reck- oned in the great trend of life. Kindness, liberality and hospitality are as much a part of their nature as for the flowers to bloom or the birds to sing. Of such a char- acter was Henry Mayes. He traveled along the even tenor of his way without attracting any great attention. He did nothing startling. The only thing he could have done startling was to have gone very wrong. Though a man of ability and deservedly popular, particularly with the young people of the neighborhood, he would never consent to take the lead or aspire to any office. You al- ways knew where to place him even if he would not al- low himself to be pushed to the front. He was always ready to assist in every good work and work for the bet- tering of the town and community. To be honest and truthful came to him as natural as to breathe the breath of life. A man of that kind would not hold his own fi- nancially in the fierce business competition of today. That is one change that we can not help but regret. The ideals and ethics of business are different. Many things have changed for the better but not that.
Henry Mayes had as few faults as any man in the valley and his virtues were by no means all negative. Yet if any man had called him good to his face he would have been much astonished. "Why callest thou me good?" he would have thought. For never in public or private life or when he took the journey to the Great Beyond did he for a single instant pose for effect. Some might have regretted that he said nothing of seeing an- gels or hearing music as he passed through the portals of death.
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