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32 Mrs. JOHN LAIN, Sr. was born in North Carolina in 1770 and in 1788 married John Lain, Sr. to whom were born a son John Lain, Jr. and a daughter Hester whose biography will be found on page 82. Mr. and Mrs. John Lain were probably too old to undertake the change at the time their children and their kindred were leaving the southland. It is surely one of the saddest trials of life, after rearing children whom are expected to be a joy and comfort in old age, to see them remove to remote parts where a long journey of many weeks is the price of seeing them, and the mail facilities are so poor and expensive that letters are so few and far between that they finally cease altogether and the old folks in their longings and lonesomeness no doubt often died with broken hearts. In this day with daily mails, cheap postage and Free Rural Delivery, the whole country is in one neighborhood and the man or woman whose parents are living and he or she neglects to write the old folks at home at least once a month a letter to brighten their lives and make them feel that they have not raised you in vain, is guilty of parental disrespect that will reap its own punishment.