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have you watched over their welfare

My dear mother I can never express to you my sense of your affection of all the kindness you have bestowed and of how good a mother you have always been to all of your children. We can never repay you, but you have our deepest love and respect. We are all anxious to receive letters giving the detail of fathers sickness and death, and every thing relating to yourself. As yet all we have had is the telegraphic despatch announcing fathers death. I remember father used to say that he enver wanted to be buried in the ground. I hope a tomb will be provided, and I trust if no wishes were expressed to the contrary that it may be in the Albany Cemetary.

I trust you have Agnes with you, if so she must be a great comfort. Give to her my kindest affection and sympathy for I know she mourns the loss of her kind Grand Father