... The dark cloud of affliction that has hung so long over my household burst in heaviest sorrow on Sunday morning of January 13, 1884, at fifteen minutes before four o^clock. My dear, dear daughter Debbie, who had been such a great sufferer for nearly a year, plumed her seraph wings, and, leaving a world of suffering behind, went home to glory and to God. How sad was that hour to our hearts! We wept, but bowed submissively to the Lord's will. The following day we carried her lifeless form, all beautiful, to Mt. Vernon Church in Morgan County, where her funeral was preached by Rev. A. C. Peters, to a large congregation, from Hebrews xiii, 14, after which her body was laid to its last resting-place in the beautiful churchyard, to await the trumpet sound of the resurrection angel. Sleep on, sweet Debbie ; I shall soon see you again. ...
