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MRS. SUSAN N. SHEHANE, born in Wilks county, Ga., Nov. 17, 1820, where she was raised. She was united in the holy bonds of matrimony with Chas. Shehane, Jan. 7, 1837; he was born in North Carolina, Mecklinburg county, Nov. 25, 1805, but raised chiefly in Murray county, Tenn. Mr. Shehane died May 18, 1857, in Macon county, Ala., leaving Mrs. Shehane a widow, with quite a family of children to support; their names from the oldest are as follows: James, William, Fannie, Eliza, Annette, and Charles. At his death Mr. Shehane was the editor of the Progressionist, a paper free and outspoken in politics, and an advocate of the Universalist faith. He was for many years a minister of the Universalist Church, and later a member of the bar. From all the facts we have been able to gather he was a man of scholarly attainments, extensive learning, great research, and a man greatly esteemed for his acts of kindness and great usefulness in a wide circle of friends. Both he and his wife were members of the Universalist Church, in which he died a firm believer, saying as his last benediction: “The world will be saved.” He was also a member of the secret order of Odd Fellows. In 1840 Mr. Shehane edited the Morning Watch, and later the Herald. Mrs. Shehane bought 160 acres of land in Jasper county, township 29, range 31, section 10, at the close of the war, and came upon the farm some years later. There are eighty-five acres under cultivation; forty acres in wheat the past season averaged twenty-nine bushels; thirty acres of corn averaged fifty bushels. There is an orchard and some small fruit on the farm. Mrs. Shehane lived in Alabama during the war, and saw some soul-stirring scenes of noise of battle and war alarm. Mrs. Shehane has survived her husband many long years, and raised to manhood a large family, but cherishes fondly the memory of him who shared in former years her joys as well as sorrows, and now believes that “the good men do lives after them.”