Letters of Elizabeth, Lucy, and Judith Ussher

by: Elizabeth Ussher

After a marriage of seventeen years, Elizabeth Ussher (1749-1817) was left a widow, and soon after deprived of her two eldest sons by death on a foreign shore. Under the weight of these trials, she and her four remaining daughters were powerfully awakened to the cost of true discipleship and convinced of the principles professed by Friends. But in the two years immediately following this great change, Elizabeth had to endure the death of all four of her daughters by consumption. The letters of these extraordinary and pious young women, written during the last few years of their short lives, were collected and published by their mother after their decease. (Original title: Extracts from the Letters of Elizabeth, Lucy, and Judith Ussher, Late of the City of Waterford.)