Translations:Jacobine Schneider (Da VII 3)/5/en

In the early 1880s, father started to suffer from poor health and, on November 9, 1885, in his 57th year, succumbed to consumption which he had contracted in his profession. My good mother, who had provided superhuman care to the beloved patient, as well as looking after the household, nearly collapsed after the death of her husband. Nevertheless, she did not allow my sister to stay at home and support her. My sister was not permitted to refuse a position offered to her by the Karl Hierneis family and she stayed with this family up to her last illness and ensuing death (1894).