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confinement. It seems very, very long since all these dear ones left us
and my heart yearns for them more than words can express, but I [illegible]
to "hope on" for a heart comforting meeting by and by, not this year however
as the times are so hard, Lloyd's [illegible] are good, and he is not at all dis
appointed in this farm I believe, but as yet the [underline] home [/underline] - feeling does not
come, tho the place is far handsomer than this.

Did she thow ever meet with Lucile [Hazarel?], cousin William's widow?
she was a very pleasant kind-hearted woman, five weeks ago today she
was suddenly [sickened?] with something like apoplexy, was conscious that her
end was approaching, bade her son Willy farewell and sent her love to her
son Robert who is with a brother of his in Chicago, she became apparent
by insensible before long, three physicians were soon there, but all their
efforts proved unavailing, she gave no evidence of [illegible] suffering but
breathed hard until about seven o'clock in the evening. when she passed
from all the trials and temptations of time: thy cousin R. had been
sent for, and was there about two hours before her death, her poor [beloved?]
son was nearly overwhelmed with grief the loss was so sudden, so entirely
[unscheduled?], and they were so much to each other: She is an [admirable?] steady
lad, about seventeen years old, is still at the homestead, a cousin of his
mother's about thirty or more, [keeps?] house for him, and George [Hazarel?] stays
with [illegible] at night, the poor child looks as if he had been very sick.

Perhaps then hast heard all this, and that D. Cranner too is no
longer working amonsgst the inhabitants of this world, if thow hast
not I will inform thee that he was burried four weeks ago this day. his
health had been poor for some months, but he continued to [bide?], was
confined to his bed only one day, and died very unespectially to this [illegible]
by poor mourn see "hind unloving and unloved" and I believe died
unlamented, this there was a semblance of sorrow, when the peo-
ple gathered to perform the last duty to poor badly: