“à Essert le 7 avril. 1854 que ma cher mère nous a lessèe elle a partit de se monde mais cest Dieu qui la voulu que Dieu la pardone et nous toutes ausi si sa lui plait.” English translation: “At Essert the 7th of April, 1854 that my dear mother left us. She left from this world, but it is God who wanted it. May God forgive her and us all too if it pleases Him.”