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THE GREEN TREE TAVERN 189
when the invalid was slowly growing worse until it seemed
at last that death must be near. About this time the girl,
whose name was Sallie Sharp, was suddenly taken down with
typhoid fever and grew rapidly worse. One Sunday an
itinerant minister was speaking at the schoolhouse at Green
Tree, and I went to hear him. I remember that Sallie was
about the strongest and most active in the crowd. The very
ne.xt Sunday, hearing that Mrs. Morris was not expected to
live, I went down to their home. I found the yard full of
neighbors and friends, and when I went into Sallie 's room I
was pained to find her dying.
Mrs. Morris lived two weeks after Sallie and suffered more
than we shall ever know. Julia was called home by telegram.
During the interval between Sallie 's death and Mother
Morris', I went down to Harrison on a visit home. Father
and Sister Ida brought me back in the rockaway carriage.
I was surprised to find Mrs. Morris still living. Her last days
were full of pain and anxious thought for her two youngest,
her little girls. She loved her children devotedly and felt her
work on their behalf was not finished. She would call them
about her dying bed and talk to them about their future; I
think she did the night we arrived there. The next day she
passed away. Father preached her funeral sermon; his text
was: "As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made
alive." The yard and house were full of neighbors. The
interment took place at Lebanon. Thus the dear little girls,
Alice and Clarinda, were left without a mother. Aunt 'Rusha
Spinning was a boarder in the home, but she could not take a
loving mother's place. Green Tree was not to know a real
mother again in the Morris generations.