Frances Lydia Swire Letters

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SWIRE Family of Yorkshire, England, St. Vincent & Jamaica, West Indies

Frances Lydia COX

November 27, 1800 - September 28, 1882

Letter Dated November 06, 1878

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Frances Lydia (COX) SWIRE (photo above taken 1870's ??).


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November 06, 1878

My dear Phil

It is with sorrow I have just heard of the death of two of your dear Children. May our God strengthen your dear wife and self to hear with resignation the trial He has seen fit to lay on you. Try to think of them as being now safe with the Savior, and that your dear ones have only gone before, and that ere long we may all meet never more to know sorrow or passing.

Dear Mamie too has had to part with one of her dear Sons after a few hours illness from spasms of the Heart. He was a fine lad of 13 years of age. I only heard of it by the last mail.

My heart is full dear Phil, all I can do is to (pray?) for dear Anna and yourself to be able to say "Thy holy will be done". God bless and keep you all is the sincere prayer of

Your loving Mother
F. L. Swire

Notes:

Philip's children died in the Louisiana yellow fever epidemic. They were Tezora Maria Ritchie Swire and Harry Kean Swire, who both died September 17, 1878 at Philip's Lakeland Plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.

Mamie is Marianne (Swire) Plues, Philip's sister who lived in Victoria, Australia. Her son who had died was Edmund John James Plues.

Anna is Philip's wife, Anna C. (Kean) Swire.