 A few days preceding the date of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, while the family was on a visit to her parents, some away, a friend came on horseback from Twinsburgh to inform them that their house, together with all its contents, had been burned down during the night.Not an article was saved, as no one but the incendiary had witnessed the burning.Then came the news of the President's murder, and to her depressed mind, all the world seemed going to "wreck and ruin," especially when, nine weeks later, her husband's mills with their entire contents were destroyed by fire.