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in any co~uriunity or close to any settlement, fearf~d of being apprehended by people who were always looking for rewards.

	“After arriving at Hanover, Peimsylvania~ it was easy for us to ~et transportation farther north. They made their wa~ to Scranton, Pen~nsy1~ vania, in which place they both secured positions in the saine family. Father artd mother‘s salary combined was ~27.5O per month. They stayed there until 1869. In the meantime I Was beine taucht at a quaker mission in Scranton. ~flien we came to Baltimore I entered the 7th grade grammar school in South Baltimore. After fitishing the grammar school, I followed ~ookin~ all my life before and after inarria~,e. lAy husband James Berry, who waited at the iioviard House, died in 1927 aced 84. On my next birthday, which will occur on the 22nd of November, I will be 95. I can see well, have an excellent

appetite, ~‚r~ grandchildren will act me eat only certain things that they say the doctor ordered I should eat. On Chrisùnas Day 49 children and grand— children and saine great-grandchildren gave me a Xmas dinner and one hundred dollars for Xmas. I am happy with all the comforts d~ a poor person not dependant on any one else for tomorrow“.