Anne Amelia Parsons, fifth daughter of J. W. and Catherine Neville Parsons, was born in the Horse Shoe. She had arrived at the age when a mind can think and reason, when she was left without the guiding hand of a mother. She knew that a cerain gale would send her ship in the wrong course, so she adjusted her sails and put out for the port of right, remembering the influences given her by the loving mother, who left this world believing God would watch over her children. At the death of her eldest sister she felt it was her plain sense of duty to be a mother to the children; she made their home pleasant until the second mother appeared on the scene. She married Lloyd Pifer, and died one year later, leaving a little daughter three months old. She was very much beloved by all who knew her.

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