Susannah Furner

===Background===
Susannah Furner was the wife of James Chilton, the mother of 9 surviving children including Justify. Susannah was considered a good puritan woman. She had strong children and kept her home orderly at all times, and had no interests outside of her family and the Bible. Justify remembers how she would let him watch her clean up in the evenings if he would sit still and pray outloud for her to hear. Sometimes, if he was very good, he would be permitted to watch her cook the Sunday meal.
===Family===
Her father was Francis Furner and her mother was Isabell, a couson of Isabell Tollemache, Justify's paternal great-grandmother. When Francis died due to drowning, Isabell became a widow and married Lyonell Chilton, Justify's grandfather, who was also a widow by that time. They never had children, but they did provide for each other in their remaining years of life.
===James Chilton's Death===
When James Chilton died, she stopped cooking Sunday meals, cleaning up the home or taking care of herself much. Justify thought that taking her to the New World would clear her mind from all the confusing things in Holland, but the voyage was rather difficult for her, and once she arrived in New Amsterdam, she was barely communicating at all. One Winter day, she wandered out into the snowy woods for almost two days. Along with villagers, Justify and Mary searched the forests for her until they found her leaning against a tree, staring into the deep woods. She claimed that she saw James in the blizzard, but he wouldn't wait for her and she was too weak to follow him. Later that week, she died of "infection."
Category:Personal History
Category:Justify
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