Litchfield enquirer., 1847-05-13
No, g. "uo,r No. 1902.

>'" |'''S ''ii WprId, WOuid hr locked upon as having reference to ,h~' progress of Inc cause of Christ, hv ines gooA mcn, and the ministers of that beap tiiul valley ct the Connccl'ut, who thc% rfsorlcd ta the house of Edwards, aut wto arc now sleeping in Inc quiet buri@i grounds on ,ho bank oflhat river:
 But other thoughts thaa those of th@ church n>j'ian, or the church triumphant f | may have bern stirred in the heart of Burr, though it was not until a(icr h. return to Nv Jcr>Gr, that hG wrote i, 'hc father oF Esther Edwards, rccaes;ine her paren'S ta sanction his addresses , tho third dauyh@r then about twenly,au, one of the mcst haau;;ful and talented young won1"a ~ her country. But ,t; college 1uHo> ot!he sjitor d2nnndcd hi, attention, ali iG.Ic wcro neither rai, roads or s'eNNHoats tn facilitate the iu, tcrcoursc between d,flrrcot portions rf eur land, and then il would have require mAny days 10 perform j 'urncy now ac~
 
 setting sun. Perhaps no' entirely frr. from the indocnt scliiShncss whu marks the character (wc beg your pa'~ lon grnllcmrnl of tho student, Mr. Bur rroposol, that according 10 the c'iouc, of cour',nnd Inc example of lhc ra,riacc' z the bride should come 10 her future hu<-. band.
 The parents of thc young lady hasi.ot-- ted and almost resented, but tbcy lc.'.,- red the question io lhcir daughter, and !1 the language of,hc oldest living dc>ccuo: ants of President Edwards, "lla lam<oS snid will go." And, attended by hr- mother and eldest brother, Miss Edward. came to New York, wh"rc Mr. nlu m2t her, and they were married.
 There mus, live been sons Gisr4r'," ol years, but they seem 10 have oerr very happy ill Ihcir u0ioa: Mrs I.of' possessed decp yictv anu a GUA mjo#an while she fulfilled every du;y, ,rr-n-. nal attractions and G.to.J mrna~r threw an additional cAeeg oJylul he, home.
 She is suid to have pess' 's' much uf that sweet playlu'ness, n natural gaio> ty which shed iight and brightness upor all around. Her married ifc was shor' She was Jeff widow u'ilh two &,AaN chi!d,cn.
 Her father succeed her husband ."' her hopes in her widowhood from his pres cnco and prayers, and of rcvivins happi. ness from a rc-liniOn with her family, was cut off by his sudden death in her own house. Before the widowed mother could reach the widowed daug Mrs. Burr had Allowed her father and hr- husband, and within q few months th" mothor was laid by them, and those whu were lovely and loved in their lives, were not ividcd in their dcaths,
 A sad journey through those dim, t'ccp forests, with heart oppressed wi'h ,hr anguish of Il bcreuyci wifi. and moiher, must it have bccu io Ma. Edw IT ,s as she probably traced tho same route whicf Shn had travelled W th the bride who went 10 meet her bridegroom, where, V" may nll believe that playful rai'r"y, anI pleasant nnticipaiions. had mingled wilf grave advice and praycrful counsel
 Brid" and bridegroom, an th" hgsh2oI rcvcrcd and honorcl with the deep dovo- ton of a true and loving" wife, [obso- lc'c ns is the phrusc, what other, cxpres. cs the idea T were all in Ihn grave.
 Whn, wonder that health filled, aoi she SO speedily followed those she nIourn- cd?
 A few remaining letters proc Mrs B. pic,y and ability. They btcalhc a sweet spirit of submission and iai:h-of trust in GoI, and love md reverence for her earthly parents.
 Nearly two thirds of century nftcf her death, one which she had written by the bedside of her infant son, then rcviv- ing from sickness which was apparent iy unto death, but spared, as the widowed heIiewd in answer to prayer in which she sicaks of having consecratcd hin, tr God. and of feeling the as,uran;c th1t her prayer was accepted, was put by lady into inc hands of :lI,t so,, in the hope that 1; might touch som, chord or awaken some ,housh,'which by the grncc of God, might lead 10 tat rcp1n:ancn which was then left him to offer. Tho head of Aaron Burr was then white wi,li the srosts of almost eighty vin;crs, and Iis path through lifo hij been tracked by moralLlisht and desolation. Oh. Llw unlike tI: cour,c this mol.r h lui ,rk. cd ou. for hiG. as she had wept and prayed by bis cradle, nnI ,hen as shsi s'i'l Hatchel by the midnight ian11. rca> rcd that letter which was now put into 'h: hands of the mn gf,wn gray in in> iQuitv We know m, that sn,- cr.-.