[47] This is Fife in French orthography, and the name of a Frenchman who first settled on it.
[48] Clo-shai—a steeple.
[49] Robert Lemen, Esq., of St. Clair county, Illinois.
[50] Rev. Joseph Lemen, ibid.
[51] Rev. James Lemen, then junior, now senior.
[52] For about twenty years, we depend wholly on the recollections of his surviving friends, for the incidents of his life and labors. The facts have been obtained, but after protracted and diligent search, we cannot in all cases accurately fix the dates. In no instance do we vary from the exact period more than four or five years.
[53] Red Staff, from the color of the flag-staff.
[54] Rev. James Lemen, who narrated the incident to the author.
[55] We extract the following correspondence from the Western Pioneer, of which the author was editor, of February 16, 1831.
“The following letter from Judge Brown to the editor will be read with pleasure by many of our subscribers. The venerable Father Clark has long been known in Illinois and Missouri as a prudent, but uncompromising advocate of human freedom and the rights of man. The ladies could not have paid the worthy father in the ministry a happier compliment than making him a member of the Colonization Society.