Day in the Life
Journal Entry
July 14, 1841 ~ Wednesday
14th I wrote the following lines in Eunice Woodruff Album
Not all the wealth of earth combined
Can give content like the innocent mind
Who in the flower of youthful bloom
Can taste the joys of a rural home
Free from borrowed care and anxious thought
Contentment reigns in the peasant's cot
As natures wants are few they'r soon supplied
Without the aid of crime or pomp or pride
Innocent as the flowers that bloom in spring
She shares in all the Joys that time can bring
While nature in her lovliness here doth act her part
Her unstudied posture speaks the language of the heart
O! reader learn wisdom from the PEASANT COT
And be content with thy future LOT
I rode to West Hartford with Br Webster & Sister Eunice 5 miles
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Webster, Dwight
13 Apr 1814 - 19 Aug 1868
134 mentions
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Webster, Eunice Hart Woodruff
19 Jun 1821 - 14 Jun 1853
272 mentions
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Wilford reunited with Phebe after 2 years; meets his 15-month-old son Wilford Jr.
Wilford spends time with family; officiates in marriage of sister Eunice to Dwight Webster on August 4.