MS
published at her own press her elegy The Wedding Ring, A Funereal Offering, to the memory of Isabel Stockdale
, wife of Jeremiah Stockdale
, who died this day, on her forty-seventh wedding anniversary.
Mary was particularly devoted to his wife, Isabel or Isabella
, who was probably her aunt. She was present, weeping and praying, when Isabel died at an advanced age (but before her husband), and wrote...