Suggested edit: Diarist, 1850-1862, co-publisher of the Boston Daily Advertiser, newspaper writer and translator.
"I have borne eleven children, and have been permitted to keep unto this day seven- One blossom of hope, just dawned upon this world, lived but a brief hour, and was transplanted by the all knowing Creator to his gardens of joy. Another remained with us but seven months, learned to return smile for smile, and was just beginning to show the germ of intelligence when a short space of anxiety was closed by us laying him away in the dark chamber, which then was but a few paces from the nursery where we cherished and nourished him. Then came another bright cherub- our darling "other Susie"- bright and hopeful and promising , with her earnest and deep glance, and her thoughtful spirit, and in her seventh year, it pleased God to take her from us...three weeks had passed away after her death, when another little girl was given us-She had been spared to this time- is like-very like her sister, - God grant she may be long spared to us, and be so trained here, that she may be joined to the "other Susie" in heaven. Since then , another little girl has been given and taken, and now there are seven here and four awaiting us on the other side of Jordan"
_ Sarah Preston Everett Hale, Commonplace Book, Sept. 5, 1841, on the occasion of her 25th wedding anniversary. Source: Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America 1750-1950 by Judith W. Leavitt (1988)
Contributor: Dee (46801636) •
"I have borne eleven children, and have been permitted to keep unto this day seven- One blossom of hope, just dawned upon this world, lived but a brief hour, and was transplanted by the all knowing Creator to his gardens of joy. Another remained with us but seven months, learned to return smile for smile, and was just beginning to show the germ of intelligence when a short space of anxiety was closed by us laying him away in the dark chamber, which then was but a few paces from the nursery where we cherished and nourished him. Then came another bright cherub- our darling "other Susie"- bright and hopeful and promising , with her earnest and deep glance, and her thoughtful spirit, and in her seventh year, it pleased God to take her from us...three weeks had passed away after her death, when another little girl was given us-She had been spared to this time- is like-very like her sister, - God grant she may be long spared to us, and be so trained here, that she may be joined to the "other Susie" in heaven. Since then , another little girl has been given and taken, and now there are seven here and four awaiting us on the other side of Jordan"
_ Sarah Preston Everett Hale, Commonplace Book, Sept. 5, 1841, on the occasion of her 25th wedding anniversary. Source: Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America 1750-1950 by Judith W. Leavitt (1988)
Contributor: Dee (46801636) •
Suggested edit: Diarist, 1850-1862, co-publisher of the Boston Daily Advertiser, newspaper writer and translator.
"I have borne eleven children, and have been permitted to keep unto this day seven- One blossom of hope, just dawned upon this world, lived but a brief hour, and was transplanted by the all knowing Creator to his gardens of joy. Another remained with us but seven months, learned to return smile for smile, and was just beginning to show the germ of intelligence when a short space of anxiety was closed by us laying him away in the dark chamber, which then was but a few paces from the nursery where we cherished and nourished him. Then came another bright cherub- our darling "other Susie"- bright and hopeful and promising , with her earnest and deep glance, and her thoughtful spirit, and in her seventh year, it pleased God to take her from us...three weeks had passed away after her death, when another little girl was given us-She had been spared to this time- is like-very like her sister, - God grant she may be long spared to us, and be so trained here, that she may be joined to the "other Susie" in heaven. Since then , another little girl has been given and taken, and now there are seven here and four awaiting us on the other side of Jordan"
_ Sarah Preston Everett Hale, Commonplace Book, Sept. 5, 1841, on the occasion of her 25th wedding anniversary. Source: Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America 1750-1950 by Judith W. Leavitt (1988)
Contributor: Dee (46801636) •
"I have borne eleven children, and have been permitted to keep unto this day seven- One blossom of hope, just dawned upon this world, lived but a brief hour, and was transplanted by the all knowing Creator to his gardens of joy. Another remained with us but seven months, learned to return smile for smile, and was just beginning to show the germ of intelligence when a short space of anxiety was closed by us laying him away in the dark chamber, which then was but a few paces from the nursery where we cherished and nourished him. Then came another bright cherub- our darling "other Susie"- bright and hopeful and promising , with her earnest and deep glance, and her thoughtful spirit, and in her seventh year, it pleased God to take her from us...three weeks had passed away after her death, when another little girl was given us-She had been spared to this time- is like-very like her sister, - God grant she may be long spared to us, and be so trained here, that she may be joined to the "other Susie" in heaven. Since then , another little girl has been given and taken, and now there are seven here and four awaiting us on the other side of Jordan"
_ Sarah Preston Everett Hale, Commonplace Book, Sept. 5, 1841, on the occasion of her 25th wedding anniversary. Source: Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America 1750-1950 by Judith W. Leavitt (1988)
Contributor: Dee (46801636) •
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