March 1st 1884

This day, 34 years ago, my wife and I were married in this house by the Rev. William Taylor. We have to record great goodness and deliverance from many fears. We often gor our sackcloth loosed, and at the last moment were girded with gladness. We have eight sons and three daughters spared to us. Oh, may they plead for the life of their spirits, and be accepted in the Advocate. There are two grand-children in Texas. May they know the God of their fathers, and serve Him with a perfect heart, a heart with which he has dealt by enlightening and renewing it. May there be saving fruit to all eternity.