The Services Of His Daughter, Who Was
An Excellent Dairymaid, Were Required To Take The Management Of The
Cows; And Her Brother Brought A Wagon And Horses All The Way From
The Front To Take Her Home.
This event was perfectly unexpected, and left me without a moment's
notice to provide myself with another servant, at a time when
servants were not to be had, and I was perfectly unable to do the
least thing.
My little Addie was sick almost to death with the
summer complaint, and the eldest still too young to take care of
herself.
This was but the beginning of trouble.
Ague and lake fever had attacked our new settlement. The men in the
shanty were all down with it; and my husband was confined to his bed
on each alternate day, unable to raise hand or foot, and raving in
the delirium of the fever.
In my sister and brother's families, scarcely a healthy person
remained to attend upon the sick; and at Herriot's Falls, nine
persons were stretched upon the floor of one log cabin, unable to
help themselves or one another. After much difficulty, and only by
offering enormous wages, I succeeded in procuring a nurse to attend
upon me during my confinement. The woman had not been a day in the
house before she was attacked by the same fever. In the midst of
this confusion, and with my precious little Addie lying insensible
on a pillow at the foot of my bed - expected at every moment to
breathe her last - on the night of the 26th of August the boy I had
so ardently coveted was born.
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