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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.

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