McFarland-Russell Letter, May 30, 1880 - Page 1

Lexington Ind.
May 30 1880

Mrs. C. C. Russel

I received your
letter of the 16th addressed to
your Cousin Eliza H. Reid
M - becomes my duty a Son to
be the communicant of the Sad
intelligence that my Dear Mother
has been sleeping the sleep of
death since August 1878. She
bore her afflictions with the
fortitude of a Christian. and
retained her faculties almost to
her last moments. yielding her
breath in full peace of mind
and convinced that she was leaving
the earthly State for a better and