Lucy and the family
left on the Marwood today. The visit has been a happy one, saddened
though it is by the death of our beautiful little Joseph. Lucy has been
cheerful since — remarkably so — but on leaving today without him she burst
into tears on seeing a little child on the boat. The boys, the three, all
lovable. Birchie is delicate, looks like Billy Rogers. Must take care of his
training.
Little
"Jody" died in the Quarrier house, a little frame cottage on the bank
of the Kanawha opposite the lower end of Charleston. Camp White was on the same
premises.
SOURCE: Charles
Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard
Hayes, Volume 2, p. 415
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