Memorial of Kate Benedict Freeman (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... eleven o'clock that evening. Many days of weakness and unconsciousness followed, during which she was watched over by ladies of the congregation with as much fondness, tenderness, and loving care, as if she had been sister to them all. For weeks her life was despaired of; but finally, in answer to many prayers, she was raised up again to comparative health. As soon as she was able to travel, she spent a month, with her husband, in her father's house, at Audubon Park (July); and the next one at Greenport, L.L, hoping to derive benefit from the sea air. One of her sisters who was with her at Greenport, furnishes the following incidents: -- The washerwoman whom they employed had two little children. They were always sent with the clean clothes. Every time they brought Kate's, she would take them into her room, and, after talking with them for a while, she would give each of them a picture-card and some candy. An old man, going for his cows, passed the house morning and night. Kate always managed to see him, and say a few kind words as he passed; for she said it made him feel happy. Before she left he came to bid her good-by. There was a little colored boy that she often met. She never failed to speak to him, and present him with a bright picture-card. On Sabbath, if she saw any one reading an irreligious book or paper, she would unobtrusively put some pleasing and attractive little books or tracts on the parlor-table. There was a girl in the house who had been confined to bed eighteen years. Kate sent her every day a pretty little book or some flowers, and always accompanied them with loving words of sympathy. In alluding to her severe illness, in a letter from Greenport to her eldest sister, she says: --KI do feel very grateful to God for restoring...