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Gentleman's Magazine 1820 part 1 p.568
she was early deprived, sprung up, and bore good fruit,
under the culture of affliction. She was endued by nature
with quickness and brightness of intellect, as appeared from
her conversation and epistolary correspondence; and to the
latest period of her life she retained both the desire and
the ability of improving her mind. But what was of far more
consequence to herself, and to all who came within her
sphere, she was blessed with great benevolence of
disposition, which prompted her to a continual exercise of
kindness and charity. Although for several years she had
been in a great measure deprived of the use of her limbs,
yet her last illness made it apparent that the principle of
life was still very strong in her: and although the many and
sever sufferings which were required to release her spirit
from its house of clay, were afflicting to her friends; yet
it is to be hoped that the memory of the patience and
perfect resignation to the will of her Heavenly Father, with
which she endured them, will afford them the truest
conslation. Her husband and children have to deplore the
loss of a dutiful and affectionate wife and mother, and the
poor of Workington of a most kind benefactoress.
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