... The following day I rode six miles to Young's Chapel, and preached the funeral of [my wife's] Aunt Susan Carpenter, while she lay a corpse in the church altar. She had requested of me more than twenty years ago to preach her funeral if I should outlive her, giving me her funeral-text, it being Rev. vii, 13, 14. I used this text in preaching her funeral. ...
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[cos1776 Note: The term "Aunt" is used loosely here. Absalom Wright was related to her by marriage in that his wife was the daughter of Deborah (Carpenter) Frogge, who was a sister to Consider Carpenter, Susan's husband.]