[from the diary of Anne Madison Willis Ambler]
Margaret came in much earlier than
usual, got all of my little family
ready for breakfast & had a few
moments to thank my Heavenly
father for his merciful kindness
to me all the days of my life...
I can not praise him sufficiently for
all of his goodness to me. "Surely goodness
& mercy have followed me all the days of
my life"..........
Spent the day sewing. After my usual
reading in the morning.
Pa went to Town & brought two letters from
Mr Shanks & Mrs Woodson, written in Sept
giving us the news of Dear Peachys death,
each time we hear it is like opening
the wound afresh; We are deprived of
the pleasure of a more full assurance
that she is with her Saviour, by her
not being aware of her end; &expressed
nothing of her feelings in her last hour.
I would that we had this comfort. I know
she was a Christian though. O why should
I mourn. God who does all for the best
must have had a wise purpose in her
early death & that may have been a [?]
knowledge of her separation from her children,
which he spared her.
MSS 15406
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