Wives and Widows
Stephens, Ann S.![Wives and Widows](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/329/32969098/CHSBZCOP0332969098.jpg)
At ten years of age I was the unconscious mistress of a heavy stone farm-house and extensive lands in the interior of Pennsylvania, with railroad-bonds and bank-stock enough to secure me a moderate independence. I shall never, never forget the loneliness of that old house the day my mother was carried out of it and laid down by her husband in the churchyard behind the village. The most intense suffering of life often comes in childhood. My mot...