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Updated: July 17, 2025

Taking our little babe in his hands, he kissed it and said, "Dear little Lavina will soon be with her father," and closed with the prayer: "O Lord, I commit my dear wife and children into thy bands. Thou art the widow's God, and a loving Father to fatherless children." The words of the dying Christian, beginning "What's that steals, that steals upon my frame? Is it death-is it death?"

Laura S. Haviland - A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences