Note 145 — APPENDIX D. LIST OF PUPILS MENTIONED IN THE JOURNAL OF MARY ANN BACON. 1802.
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“A woman of more than ordinary ability and acquirements.” Phebe Augustus Ely Avery writes of her:—
“I can tell you little that can be of use to you of my aunt Caroline. I know that she had a school for young ladies and taught painting, embroidery, working lace, etc., but she married before my remembrance Mr. Joel Steele and went to Bloomfield, N. J., to reside, and I saw her but seldom until the latter part of her life.
“She lived to be ninety years of age and retained her love for embroidery and various kinds of fancy work, almost to the last; doing beautiful work, when nearly or quite eighty.
“She was a great reader and well posted always on past and current events.”