Translations:Henriette Eckart (Da VII 1)/7/en

The death of her beloved brother, my father, deeply unsettled her. I can still see how she sat at his bed in his hour of death, unable to shed a single tear, how she took his hands time and again, that had gone cold, and how she then talked about him in the gray hour of the dawning November morning, told stories from his earliest childhood that we did not know yet and that probably only crossed her mind again after many years in the face of his death. Beside him, she had to bemoan the death of two beloved sisters, Aunt Jakobine Schneider, who died on January 11, 1900, and Aunt Henriette Blaufuss, who died on January 25, 1901. Her faith in God, without any trace of bigotry, and her submissiveness to God’s will made her strong enough to bear these losses, before she herself closed her faithful eyes forever on January 15, 1902, deeply mourned by all who were close to her.