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Winsted Sept 4. 1850
To Dea Alvan Simonds
Dear Brother

Your kind letter
came duly & I was glad to hear of your welfare
& to receive the assurance of your sympathies—
Our dear mother left us at 7^oC on Sabbath morning
& her funeral took place yesterday at 2 PM—Her
sufferings no one can describe who did not witness
there—but her patience held out wonderfully & her
end was very peaceful—The last 12 hours of her life
were comparatively free from suffering—and she died
at last like one falling asleep—A great comfort to
us & what we hardly could have expected—All has ev-
idently been ordered by the grace of God—and although
we have buried a very kind mother, whom a large family
loved very tenderly. yet I trust the lessons of her life &
death will not be lost. All the children ^& family circle^ were present
at the funeral, except my own wife—She was in Greenwich
& the death occurring on Sabbath morning, when no trains are
running, it was impossible to send for her in time—
I shall leave ^now^ as soon as I can—Some matters incident to
such an occasion ditain me here to day—Tomorrow I
go to Greenwich & prepare my family to go to Boston immediately—
My plan is to be there Thursday evening—I feel quite worn with
watching—(as Mother could have scarce any one about her but