sensible of his sufferings to the last  About ten minutes before he breathed his last he raised himself in the cradle and desired to be taken into my arms. I raised him into my lap-- In a few minutes his breath suddenly stopped-he gasped twice and expired. In vain I watched the return of an other sigh-his lungs had ceased to heave, and his spirit had fled from its clayey tenement forever.  Oh, my love, what a moment was that for his poor mother, far, far from him who alone could feel the full weight of the anguish which like the rushing of a mighty torrent suddenly overwhelmed her soul. But I can not dwell
longer on that painful scene. He ceased to breathe at half-past eleven in the morning. 
The funeral was attended at fathers house on Monday which was the third day, and a sermon preached by Elder J. Reynolds from, "Is it well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child? And she answered, it is well". We then followed his precious remains to the grave and interred him at sister A. G.s feet. I shall be obliged to leave the selection of gravestone to our friends in Tin. as I shall stay there no more than one or two days on my way to New York. I have not yet visited our friends in White Creek and must therefore stay there a few days. Bro Hiram enclosed a line in your letter, saying our friends in Tinmouth all thought I had better not return to N. C. untill you have finished your wanderings.  My friends in this place are of the same mind.  They think we shall expose our lives by going south at this season of the year.  But my views of duty, and my inclination both urge me to comply with your request.  I have written to Br. Armstrong, saying I shall