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1845 November 18 - December 6 . AMs. "An account of the sickness & last hours of my beloved Father"; s.l.

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Box 4
Abstract:
Possibly written by Nathaniel Glover Allen about his father, Wilkes Allen (1775-1845). Visiting his father, hopes for salvation, and emotions accompanying impending death. Father wished to be buried in Chelmsford, [Massachusetts], "the scene of his ministerial labors." Visits from friends and family, preaching at local churches, the shifts in his father's health and mental state. Describes their Thanksgiving, his father's symptoms, and doctors and reverends tending to him. Comments on his father's death bed, religion, final passing, and funeral. Quotes hymns, including one his father sang derived from the poem "The Dying Christian," and Isaac Watts's "Death and Burial of a Saint." Copies the hymn sung at his father's funeral.
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14 pages

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