Robert Goodbody Journal

in our family. My dear Aunt Alice Goodbody after building a new house which she called Grange Lodge, and living in it a year, but for some years in very poor health. About a week before she died I was called up to her, and found her I great pain at her heart, she being a long time subject to the disease termed Angina Pectoris. However after a while by warm stuping she got better. She had previously to this had her cloths packed up in order to attend the ensuing yearly meeting of Dublin, but then gave it up. However I went and some more of the family, and was in Dublin when in 2nd day night of the yearly meeting 1817, on third day morning, my Aunt Margaret that slept in another bed in the same room got up and dressed her self thinking that her sister was asleep, went down and when breakfast was ready went up to see whether her sister was ready for breakfast. She found her in bed and dead, and quite cold, with her hands in her usual way of sleeping. I don't suppose that she ever awoke or has any struggle. She was loss to our family and the neighbourhood, being a real gentlewoman. My Margaret was sent for being at home and went, sent word to Dublin. My mother and I with Marcus travelled all night in a chaise from Dublin, getting home about 5 o'clock in the morning. I felt my Aunt's death very much, being very fond of her.

The next death in the family was my brother William who died in Dublin in the 10th mo. 1822. My Aunt Margaret Pim died at Nahad of a Parylitick affection, in the 3rd mo.1823, and was buried at Moate. The next death was very trying to my feelings, being that of my dearly beloved son Richard. He had the Scarlitena very bad in the Autumn of 1827. I don't think he ever was stout after. He was after

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