1Martha A. C. Lewis, Lucy B. Lewis, and Ann M. Lewis to Thomas Jefferson, 17 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
no doubt You have before this, heard of the iraparable loss we have experianced, in the death of the best of mothers , and sister , which event took place on the twenty Sixth day, of last may , she graguley waisted away with little or no pain, for eighteen months enteirly sensable to here last moments, quite resind to meat the aughfull fate, her remains was intered the twenty Eigth on a high...