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until daylight, which I accepted; that much more time to offer up prayers to God for myself and dearly beloved wife and children — all to meet in heaven. "My dear brother Lewis, I know how this will affect you. You know all about my business. * * * I wish my beloved son, Cyrus, if he is spared through this dreadful-war, to manage my business, with your assistance — as dutiful a son as ever lived, and I must say so for all my sons and daughters. I now leave you, Cyrus, Thomas, Charles, Rufus, David, Christopher, Lockhart, Egbert, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth; leave you with your Christian mother. God be your stay and support, trusting in God and preparing to meet me in Heaven. "David S. Creigh." The next morning, a little after sunrise, he was brought out under guard, put into a wagon, and conveyed up a little vale to a spot about a quarter of a mile north of the house, and in full view of it.--There, upon a tree, close by a fountain known as the "big spring, " was