...ends, and many books, she passed a serene and contented life. She was a deeply religious woman and bore with fortitude the sorrows that came to her, the most bitter of which was the fate of her son Thacher . This youth, whom Wentworth Higginson called his gayest and most frolicsome brother, went on a voyage to South America and the ship was never heard from. It was the mother's custom to retreat eve...