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herself. We think that the shock killed her. She was buried on Monday
afternoon....
Sister Gates was in delicate health. She had suffered much from
lung difficulty. Only the day before her death, she spoke to Sister
Hughes in reference to her case. She said that her lung difficulty had
returned to her, and that she knew a long illness was before her. To
her the future was a terrible dread, for her brother and his wife are
both struggling with ill health, and she could not endure the thought of
being a burden to them. Her father and mother, brothers and sisters, are
all dead except this brother. We feel that it is well that she did not have
to suffer from a lingering disease, and we have laid her away for a little
while, till she shall be called forth to a glorious immortality.—
Letter
203, 1899
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