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terminated fatally in a few minutes. Do you remember David Eason of the firm of J.& D.S. Eason who kept a dry good store where Avery's boot & shoe store now is. Before he left La Porte his lungs become diseased & he was very low, but he went on to a farm somewhere west of here & his brother tells me that his health improved very much for a time, but he became dissipated but was around about his farm when he came into the house one night & sit down on the lounge & in five minutes was dead. I presume he might have got along comfortably if he had not be dissipated. I only mention these cases tos how how liable I am to a sudden death & to explain why I am so reluctant to do anything that will endanger what little property we have, for if I die before you & the children it will be hard