Report of Dean Plumptre

The mother of one of the foremost thinkers and theologians of our time was lying on her death-bed, in the April of 1854. She had been for some days in a state of almost complete unconsciousness. A short time before her death, the words came from her lips,—”There they are, all of them,—William and Elizabeth, and Emma and Anne;” then, after a short pause, “and Priscilla, too.” William was a son who had died in infancy, and whose name had for years never passed the mother’s lips. Priscilla had died two days before, but her death, though known to family, had not been reported to her.

Light: (September 2, 1882) p. 399.