Robert Goodbody Journal

her face, near the size of two infants. I will recollect the care my mother paid to her, night and day, holding her on her lap, and trying to keep her nourished at the breast, although a loathsome object as well as offensive, but she recovered. That was the time my sister Alice had the complaint, but she was not very ill.

Job Scott was in Mountmellick a few days after, but not at our house on account of the infection. On 1st day morning he spoke longely. He was a great minister, and in the evening Robert Thacker was married to Mary Jackson. There was a very large crowed meeting, and several clergymen there. He commonly gave the clergy a great dressing often saying in his discourse that the Church of England Hierarchy would soon fall. I remember him afterwards at the winter meeting I Dublin saying on the same subject that the child was now born that would see it's downfall. I fear friends are sometimes led astray when they attempt to predict. However he died a few weeks afterwards, of the smallpox at the house of Elizabeth Shackelton of Ballitore.

In the spring of 1794 there was two weddings at my father's house. The first was Lucy Wyly a beautiful young woman, 1st cousin of my mother, to Joseph Malone, an ordinary pock marked man. She died a few years after. She got Sequainted with him at Clonmel. She left children after her, but it turned out a foolish match.

The other marriage was the marriage of Cooper Clibborn to Alice Simmons. There was a very large wedding company. Sally Cooper, his Aunt, acted as a mother to him, and James Clibborn then a very handsome man acted as his father James Clibborn was then a minister in good esteem, and a very plain dressed friend, which he never departed from

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