Oct 4th 1858 Home
Calls for the week: Monday night, Messers
Decker and Hopkins. Wednesday night, Decker and Quimby, Friday night,
Decker and Quimby besides Mr Decker coming twice home with Allie to
keep the rain off of her and Saturday, Jo R and Moses. To day Allie and
I went twice to church but was so sleepy we could not keep awake so
we took a nap in the afternoon. I shall remember Saturday night some
little time and all that was said on the sofa in the parlor. I have
written that some many time and in the last year will all of sceanes? be
remembered! My heart answeres they will and many times in the lapse of
years be they years of sorrow or of joy I will think of these happy sceans (scenes) in this my happy
girlhood home and of the many Sunday nights also. For always on the
quite (quiet) sabbath evening I think of the past and I always
silently thank my Heavenly Father for dealing so gently with so
wicked a creature as I. And for leaving her her earthly comforters, her
parents, while he takes away so many others. No one know that
beneath a careless exterior I hid(e) a warm and loving heart and those
that I I love dearly will Our Father in heaven guide me softly
through life and when I at last sleep my last sleep, may I join my
Brother in Heaven.
Editor's note: Her brother Elihu Wheeler Kirby died at 7 years of age in 1852. Mary was 13 years old.
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