Excerpt from the “Creswell Letter” column:

Mrs. A.L. CAHOON, wife of our new merchants (who was formerly Master of Str. I.D. COLEMAN), presented the Captain with a fine daughter on the 24th inst., which makes his second child and causes him to look very happy.

Source: Roanoke Beacon, 9 August 1889.  Available online at digitalnc.org.