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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 strive
to "hope on" for a heart-comforting meeting by and by, - not this year however
as the times are so hard, - Lloyd's crops are good, and he is not at all dis-
appointed in his farm I believe, but as yet the [underline]home[/underline] feeling does not
come, tho' the place is far handsomer than this.

Didst thou ever meet with [Lucie?] Hazard, cousin William's widow -
she was a very pleasant kind-hearted woman, - five weeks ago to-day she
was suddenly [seized?] 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 hers in Chicago, - she became apparent-
ly insensible before long, - three physicians were soon there, but all their
efforts proved unavailing, - she gave no evidence of much 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 bereaved
son was nearly overwhelmed with grief - the loss was so sudden, so entirely
unexpected, - and they were so much to each other: he is an amiable, 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 Hazard stays
with him at night. - the poor child looks as if he had been very sick.

Perhaps thou hast heard all this, and that Dr. [Cramm?] too is no
longer [?] amongst the inhabitants of this world, - if thou hast
not I will inform thee that he was buried Four weeks ago this day. - his
health had been poor for some months, but he continued to ride, - was
confined to his bed only one day, and died very unexpectedly to his fami-
ly - poor man he "lived unloving and unloved" - and I believe died
unlamented, - tho' there was a semblance of sorrow, when the peo-
ple gathered to perform the last duty to poor body: