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To Fannie Pelton 20 months old daughter of Mr Mrs Pelton. Only child of E. W Frances N Pelton. dying when twenty months
old 5 Fannie you are a dear precious thing, and frail, your life has trickled illegible but a little way does that little
stream grow deeper? does that little stream grow wider I very anxiously hope yes. Will the woes which have so loved to cluster
on your soft little body go all away, will skipping gleeful life be given fragile Fannie Her Father and her mother held her
life, will she sweeten their age? Ah Fannie did you know that gush of fear, and hope, and love, You would be crystal gratitude
and affection, throughout and throughout forever You have been a bit of down and rudely chased about by the side of great
Eternity