Wilford is dying; gives family final instructions on funeral and disposition of belongings.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
October 23, 1859 ~ Sunday
23rd Sunday Sister Eliza spent the day with me
A most distressing cough siezed me which seemed
to rend my left Lung in peaces. Whenever the caugh
sieezed me the it was as sudden as though I was
struck with a thunderbolt and at evry cough it
seemed as though a sword pierced through my body
it seemed as though I must perish
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Snow, Eliza Roxcy
21 Jan 1804 - 5 Dec 1887
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