[p. 100] On one religious journey she stayed over night with a Friend, who had recently come into possession of the family homestead and a comfortable property, but he said, deprecatingly, ‘I have to keep my mother.’ ‘Was she an active woman in early life?’ asked Mrs. Mott. ‘Oh, yes, very! she brought up a large family of children, attended to the housework and dairy, and seldom kept any help; she was a very saving woman.’ ‘And yet,’ replied Mrs. Mott, ‘thou says thou has to keep her. Did not her industry and frugality entitle her to an equal ownership with her husband in homestead and farm? Should it not be said that she allows thee to live with her?’
Mrs. Mott was a tireless reader, making copious extracts as she went, and calling into her library any one she could to share the pleasure of a fine passage. Indeed, her whole spirit was to share—time, money and strength, all given freely with the love of giving.
If possible many instances of this might be given, but for the already great length of this paper. But we must draw to a close, merely summarizing the rest of her long life as busy, active and serene.
James and Lucretia Mott had the happiness of celebrating their golden wedding, with a large circle of descendants about them, on the 10th of 4th Month (April), 1861. Children, grandchildren and one greatgrand-child were there, and three of the original number who had been present at their marriage in the old Pine Street Meeting House in Philadelphia.
After this came the Civil War, and a camp for recruiting and training colored soldiers was established near the home of the Motts. As an abolitionist she gave the movement her sympathy, but as an advocate of peace she condemned the resort to carnal weapons. With these conflicting feelings Mrs. Mott seldom visited the camp—‘Camp William Penn’—but she found many chances to befriend its inmates, both officers and privates. The regiments, as they left for the seat of war, sometimes
