American Annals of the Deaf Volume 10, No. 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...On Sunday, Oct. 19, Matilda Faron died at her father's residence in Brooklyn. She was a member of my first class at the Institution, in the Fall of 1843. At the early age of 23 years and 8 months she was stricken down by consumption. She was always a bright, intelligent and interesting girl, and at length added to her natural good qualities, religious principle. During her long illness I administered to her the Communion several times. On the following Tuesday her remains were buried in Greenwood Cemetery. On Friday, Oct. 24, at Mamaroneck, Westchester Co., I conducted the funeral service of Margaret Ann Dobbie, a deaf-mute young woman, who had also been a pupil of mine, and who had been for some time a communicant of our Church. As long as her strength held out she labored patiently and industriously in this city to support herself, but at length the ravages of consumption sent her home to the care of her kind mother. Once after she left us, I gave her the Communion. It was an affecting scene; for beside her knelt her mother and aged grandmother to receive the broken bread and poured wine, according to the institution of the crucified, yet risen and ascended, Saviour of the world. She passed away full of Christian hope and confidence, that for Christ's sake she was about to enter upon the joys of the redeemed. Her remains were buried in New Rochelle, near the spot where the year before, John S. Webster, the deaf-mute young man to whom she expected to be married, was killed by a sweeping train. On Wednesday, Oct. 29, at Watervliet Center, Albany Co., I married Moses Smith and Elizabeth Van Zandt, both graduates of our Institution. About this time occurred at Cape Ann, Mass., the death of a member of our Parish, who had always taken a...