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- Her death date, at age 27, is from a letter sent by her mother to a cousin Ira Stout--thanks to a descendant of the Stouts for sending this along! I assume that "Mollie" in the letter is Mary. Here is the letter:
Germantown KY Dec 5th 1870
Dear Cousin Ira
I take my pen to write you a few lines to let you hear from us. It becomes my painful duty to record the death of our dear and loving daughter Mollie.
She died Nov 27th in great peace after many weeks of affliction. She was taken with intermittent fever in Muncey Ind on the 25th of August. We got her home Sept 29. She was just able to walk a little but was cheerful, she was troubled some with her lungs before she came home. Yes she had feared that her lungs were affected for over a year but not seriously. But after she got home her cough got worse and continued to grow worse yet she still had a hope it would be arrested and that she would again be healthy to enjoy the society of friends. She kept tolerable cheerful most of the time. She talked a great deal to us about all the friends she had visited and got acquainted with. She loved you and your wife very much. Told me when she saw she could not live that I must write to you and other friends and tell you how she died.
O dear cousins her death was certainly the most triumphant I ever witnessed.
She sought the lord in faith and on Wednesday before she died she found him the one altogether lovely. From that time until she died her countenance was as the noonday. Peace flowed as a river, she was calm and collected, talked to many kind friends. She told them that she had not long to talk and she had a great deal to say. My dear cousins she was a loving child had always been afflicted, this bound her very close to our hearts yet when the Lord blessed her so abundantly I was enabled to say thy will and not mine O lord be done. She was lovely in death, she told me to send some flower seeds to one of your daughters, I think she called her Martha but you will know which it is was as it one the one who cultivated flowers. I am glad that our dear Mollie was permitted to make the visit as she seemed to enjoy it so much. She told me of the troubles in your church. I do hope you will all be brought to gather again on the right basis, be bound to gather by Christian fellowship and love. But my dear friends it is not right for us to compromise with any wrong but stand firm for the right and God will ultimately bless us.
We received a letter written to Mollie from cousin Mattie Shirk since her departure. Annie will answer it soon. I will write to cousin Goudies. Now my dear friends we would be glad to receive a visit from you or any of your family hope you will be enabled to come sometime. My love to you and your family and other friends. I remain as ever your cousin
R. G. Hanson
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