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Dec 24th 1878 ... Forty nine years tomorrow
since I was married to my dearly lov-
ed and now deeply lamented husband ...
We had many happy home pleasures
enhanced by social intercourse
with truly Christian friends ... we
never in our lives numbered
irreligious persons among our friends ...
we were highly favoured in having
intimate acquaintance with those
who, to deep piety added refined
intelligent culture. Most of them
have passed the flood. Of many
of them little thought I once that
they would first the haven gai[n.]
We had many advantages, and ma-
ny anxieties from the state of business
in our little town ... we used often to