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We were very thankful that we had been so highly favored, and be" gan to feel that we were getting up in the world. We were the owner s of 160 acres of land, with a house erected on it, one cow, a barrel of flour a little hay put up, and five acres of wheat on the ground, besides a few articles for housekeeping, such as we could not do without and very few would have been willing to do with. Mr. Hurd and Chas. D. Smith rode
over from Marshall and made us a visit. They were the first men who called on us in the county, and we were very glad to make their acquaintance, as neighbors at that time were few and far between. The falling of the leaves and the shortening of the days reminded us that it was time to prepare for winter. Our bread-stuff was nearly all gone and a supply could not be obtained nearer than fifty miles; but as this was the best that could be done, (and we could not live without bread), my husband and Mr. Kimball started for the mill to obtain a supply. They had to ford the Kalamazoo twice and ferry it once in an Indian canoe, taking their wagon apart and conveying one wheel across at a time. The journey was performed in eleven days without accident. It was now the llth of November, and we had done but little to. make our house comfortable for winter. We went to work to finish our chimney, and had just completed it when it commenced snowing, and we did not see the ground again until January.
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