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     ing, of high integrity, with an abiding sense of the justice due to all, and influ— 
     
     enced by deep religious convictions. In his native village he was by common 
     
     consent the arbiter of difi'erences, the counsellor and friend of all.” ‘ 
     
    

    
     He was buried in the family burying—ground, at South Kingstown, on the fifth 
     
     of October, 1862. 
     
    

    
     He married, June 17, 1847, Sally, daughter of Governor Lemuel Hastings and 
     
     Sally (Lyman) Arnold. 
     
    

    
     CHILDREN 
     
    

    
     2604. ISAAC PEACE RODMAN, born April 25, 1848; married Harriet E. Roéimm. 
     
    

    
     2605. SALLY LYMAN RODMAN, born Feb. 10, 1850; married Rofiert Tbamprm. 
     
    

    
     2606. MARY PECKHAM RODMAN, born March 23, 1852; unmarried. 
     
    

    
     2607. SAMUEL RODMAN, born Feb., 1854; died Feb., 1856. 
     
    

    
     2608. THOMAS RODMAN, born March 23, 1856. 
     
    

    
     2609. SAMUEL RODMAN, born April 23, 1858; married Cyntlzia Ska/don ,- his name was changed to 
     
    
   
   
    
     Samuel Arnold Rodman. 
     
     2610. ELIZABETH ARNOLD RODMAN, born July, 1860; died 1864. 
     
    
   
   
    
     § I954- LOUISA HAZARD RODMAN, 8 (Samuel Rodman, 7; Elizabeth 
     
     Hazard, 6; Stephen, 5 ; Thomas, 4.; Stephen, 3; Robert, 2 ; Thomas, I), was born 
     
     March 26, 1826; she died May 2, I854. Louisa Rodman was born in the first 
     
     quarter of the century. Then a village school was as much a place of amusement 
     
     as study, so that her opportunities for an education were limited; but so great 
     
     was her love for study and books that she rose above her environment. There 
     
     were no public libraries in the town until long after her day, but there was hardly 
     
     a house in the neighborhood which contained a book that she had not read. She 
     
     was wonderfully well informed upon many subjects; the classics were especially 
     
     familiar to her. ‘ 
     
    

    
     She was a woman of fascinating personality. Her wit was so pungent and spark— 
     
     ling that it was contagious, and brought out the best there was in her friends; 
     
     and one left her presence feeling that he himself had been particularly clever. 
     
     Her quickness at repartee was unsurpassed, and woe to the poor wight who at— 
     
     tempted to crush her with sarcasm. He was annihilated in the answering flood 
     
     with which he was assailed, although most kind and gentle in general, especially 
     
     to an inferior. This wit was an inheritance from her Rodman ancestors. It was 
     
     said that old John Rodman, of Barbadoes, before he left his native Ireland, in 
     
     1655, had kissed the “ Blarney stone,” and the wit for which he asked had flowed 
     
     down the advancing years, to break out here and there in some favored descend— 
     
     ants, especially the women. A lady once returned a book that her daughter had 
     
     borrowed, with the remark, “ My daughter is a regular book—worm.” Louisa, 
     
     looking at the soiled, dilapidated book with a regretful glance, said, “ That ac— 
     
     counts for the condition in which the books I lend to her are returned; she 
     
     leaves her trace on every page.” 
     
    

    
     She was so bright and full oflife, and seemed to love life so dearly, that one was 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ This sketch is condensed from one in the History of Washington County. 
     
     surprised