ENPages That Mention Mrs Tucker
Mary Emma Jocelyn diary, 1851-1852.
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Friday.. Very cold but clear.. Commenced making up my new dress. Miss Mary Warner, Mrs Fitch, and Mary Reeve called, P.M. Wrote to William Gonsalves? in the evening.
Saturday.. Pleasant. Spent the day busily and pleasantly at home. Ellen Dickinson called in the morning. Mr Murphy unexpectedly arrived from New Haven in the afternoon much to Harriet's surprise and delight.
Sunday.. Pleasant. Attended our church all day. Father preached in the morning and Mr Picard in the afternoon. Spent the evening in pleasant and I trust profitable reading.
Monday.. Cloudy. Occupied the morning with my needle. Early in the afternoon I called on Mary Reeve and also on Mrs Tucker, an intimate friend of Mrs Leager She has just received a letter from Mrs Leager, in which one had been inclosed to me by Ellen, but for some reason, not explained, had been taken out. She is a very pleasant and talkative woman, and entertained me with a long account of what Mrs Leager had written. She also offered to enclose a letter from me in her own letters which she sends tomorrow. Kate Hudson made a long call soon after my return. In the evening wrote to Ellen Seager, wrote in my journal, and read the newspapers.
Tuesday. Clear, but very cold. Sewed all day without interruption. Mrs Beecher called about dusk. Read in the evening Folks say that this is the coldest day we have had in [three?] years.
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Sunday. 28th Dec.. Rained hard all day. I did not go out. Father visited Henry Hudson at noon. Found him very low but perfectly sensible. At his request prayers were offered for him at church in the afternoon Father visited him again after church and found him in a very happy state of mind. He sent his love to us all. The thought of his danger affected me very much, though I could scarcely tell why I wept. We had a little meeting at home in the ev'ng and special prayers were offered for him. Mr Murphy Harriet, Carrie and I sang and talked together till about ten when we retired.
Monday.. The snow has all disappeared, carried completely away by the heavy rain of yesterday, and it is much warmer than it was last week; but the walking is anything but pleasant. Went out in the afternoon of an errand. Met Emma Briggs and after- wards H. Wilde both of whom gave me a compliment very different from each other. Mary Reeve and Miss [?] called in my absence but going out again I met them and had quite a pleasant walk with them [Mr? word is crossed out] George Hendson? passed us as we turned a corner He looked very sober and I could not help feeling sorry that I happened to be laughing just then. Called on Mrs Tucker, and on Sarah Olmsted. Attended prayer meeting at Mrs Stearns in the evening.
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Tuesday, March 16th.. Went into Grand st of an errand, and called on Mrs Tucker. Sewed in the afternoon
Wednesday.. Rained in the morning and snowed in the afternoon.. Received a box from Mrs Leager and Ellen containing two very pretty boxes, crochet patterns a worsted pattern and letters from Ellen and her mother to Carrie and I. We were much pleased with them all. -- Mr & Mrs Hudson, Kate and Henry came over in the afternoon and took tea with us. Mr Murphy was also here and George He came in the evening. We had a very pleasant time both in the afternoon and evening. We had prayers and sing-ing together about half-past ten and soon after they left. Mr Hudson presented Father with a $20 bank note
Thursday.. Cloudy and damp. Wrote to Ellen Leager. Cornelius who has been complaining for the last two weeks was suddenly taken very ill with the rheumatism and the doctor was called. He was put to bed, the Doctor's prescriptions attended to and he soon felt much better. Sarah Wilde spent the afternoon here.
She has improved a little during her long sojourn from home but is herself still. She amused us very much Henry Hudson called and accompanied me to Lyceum in the evening. The Rev Mr. Pierpont delivered his celebrated poem on New England. It was received with much applause
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Saturday, July 17th Cloudy. Carrie and Kate were absent all the morning shopping and looking up dressmakers. In the afternoon I was about putting on my things preparatory to a call on Mary when I took up a paper just thrown in and the first thing I saw was the announcement of Mrs Tucker's death - Could it be possible and I had not even heard that she had been dangerously ill. She died this [morn?] at 12 o'clock of inflammation of the heart. I could hardly believe it, and resolved at once to call at Mr. Tucker's and learn the particulars. Poor Mrs Sager?! was my first thought - she has lost her best friend - they were dear to each other as sisters and indeed by that endearing title they always addressed one another. To Mrs Tucker, Mrs Sager? always went for counsel and sympathy and as Ellen? has told me she thought all the world of her then oh! how heavily will the blow fall on her widowed heart I could but weep as I thought of it - and then too, so far away without a friend to whom she can go for sympathy or consolation. But I forget! - her best friend is ever with her and surely He who has [sustained?] in a greater trial will not forsake her in this. - I went immediately to Mr Tucker's, stopping on my way to say a word to Mary. I was shown into the back parlor the room in which I saw her for the first time several months since. I have felt so well acquainted with her that I can hardly realize that I have known her for only so short a time, much less can [I?] I realize that our pleasant interviews will be no more. The corpse was in the room - ah! how unlike a corpse - so composed, so serene - a bright smile glowing over the pale expressive features like a ray of glory lighting up the dark realm of death.
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Mr Tucker was walking up and down the room apparently in great distress and unconscious of everything else but the presence of that dear one now cold in death. Little William the youngest boy, was crying for his mother when I came, his father took him up in his arms and held him over the corpse but the child turned away without out seeming to recognize it, and his father resigning him to the arms of the nurse proceeded again with his despairing walk up and down the room - I could not bear to look at him and turned and caressed the motherless child a sweet little fellow not yet three years old - while I asked the nurse a few questions as well as I could speak. She said that Mrs Tucker's danger became first evident on Thursday and that she had been in a dying state from then. She herself was convinced of it. She suffered a great deal but was conscious most of the time expressed perfect confidence in her Saviour and a willingness to depart though she regretted leaving her family. She left five children, three boys and two girls the youngest being a little more than a year old. I left with a saddened heart. Father called there in the evening Mrs Tucker was a dear and esteemed friend of his.