Robert Goodbody Journal

most of the friends of Edenderry, and Rathangan, Joseph Inman and Ruth, Joshua Wilson and Hannah, Samuel Neale and Debby, Abm Neale and Whelan's carriages. At the burring ground was the first place I ever saw Samuel Emlin who was there with Mary Ridgeway. There was a very long silence, but no one speaking. I went with my Aunt Margaret to Tullylost that night, and home next day, all the rest returning the day before. Dorah Harvey, Mary Pim's sister died and was buried the same day I got home at Rossenaless. Next day Samuel Emlin was at the meetings in Mountmellick, and several meetings afterwards as he and Mary Ridgeway entered on a family visit in Mountmellick. He was a large powerful minister. I recollected one of his texts was, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously, out of Isaiah; he seemed to have Scriptures all by heart.

I think that it was in 1797or 8 that Elizabeth Pim, my wife's sister dies of galloping consumption. She was a sober young person aged 15. My Uncle Richards only child Susanna, who had been several years at Clonmel school came home, in the 11th mo. 1797. In about a year afterwards he placed her at my father's to diet and lodge I suppose to perfect her education. Perhaps she might be then 16 years of age, but in a few weeks after in the 1st mo. She became ill, and it turned out the smallpox. My uncle took her home, in great trouble about her, but they were aware that she never had the disease before. I think that she died at the end of 4 weeks afterwards, having suffered greatly, and at times in great anxiety about her well being, but died peacefully. Her mother, a weak minded woman at the best, (her maiden name was Esther Gatshell), soon after got astray in her mind, and died a few months after, leaving my uncle very desolate,

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