1807, 28 September
My beloved Sally is in her grave since yesterday. She departed this life on the sixth day morning a little before 6 o'clock, in the 46th year of her age; the 25th day of ye month. Oh! what a loss to a mother aged nearly 72 years; my first born darling.
~ Genealogical Gleanings from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, 1759 to 1807, Page 622 in Pennsylvania Vital Records, Vol I, by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated in 1983.
You can visit the memorial page for Sally Drinker.
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