p. 41 FRIENDSHIP On our return from St. Paul, Neb., we three (G. W. Cutshall, G. N. Waid and Francis)visited Ephraim SMITH, then living near New London, and about four miles from Mt. Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa. Mr. Smith and his wife were formerly from Crawford County, Penn., having lived near Blooming Valley. They were quite aged people when we visited them, and sice then Mrs. Smith has died. Later in the article: Martha Smith was a little older than I, and we were always acquainted, she being one of our nearest neighbors in her youth, and afterward a resident of Meadville, where she died March 12, 1874. Martha Smith was interred in Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, Penn. An older sister, Mary Smith, married Nathan Southwick, and died at Little Cooley, Crawford County, Penn., February 12, 1860 in her thirty-eighth year. She is interred in the Smith Burying-ground, in Mead Township, Crawford County. Of Joseph Smith's family of twelve children five are living--the youngest daughter and four sos' the aged mother is yet alive. I remember the last time I saw Mary Southwick; it was on this occasion. My brother-in-law, Asa Masiker, who lived in Spring Creek, Warren Co., Penn., was here (Blooming Valley) to attend the funeral of his father, who died January 30, 1860, and I accompanied him with my horse and cutter on his way home after the funeral as far as Little Cooley. Before leaving this place I called to see Mary, who was very low with consumption, though still able to sit up. Nick P. Waid and Orlando Waid have traded interests in their father's (R. L. Waid's) real estate, each one to take possession of his own April 1, 1887' and this day, December 14, 1886, they have rented said estate of their mother, Almeda Waid, I. F. D. Waid, assisting in the transaction and writing the articles of agreement. And so the day is closed with what I wished to be considered an act of TRUE FRIENDSHIP.