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96 clearly and calmly; told where they were, and how to be got at; and then made arrangements how she wished her body disposed of. She said she wished a very plain shroud and coffin, and to be buried plain and quietly; she said she came into this world plain, and her desire was to leave it the same.

Her shroud was plain and her coffin of the plainest boards. When I think of this lady, her noble heart, her many kindnesses, not only to those she was acquainted with, but to those who required kindness of all nations, recur to my memory and renew the grief I felt at her death.