4–10 May 1863

On Friday morning. May ist, at 3 o'clock, died Mary Moody Emerson, at Williamsburg, New York, aged 88 years, 8 months. Hannah Haskins Parsons, her niece, who has, since her childhood, been in some sort dedicated to the care and nursing of her aunt, has for the last four years taken entire charge of her, and hav- ing with incredible patience and tenderness attended her throughout her long decline, and closed her eyes, now attended the remains to Concord, and arrived here on Saturday night. This afternoon (Monday) the body was taken from the receiving tomb to the grave in my lot in Sleepy Hollow, and deposited in a vault therein, in the presence of Elizabeth Hoar, Elizabeth Ripley, Mary Emerson Simmons, Lidian Emerson, Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson, and myself. The day was cloudy and warm, with mist resting over the south, and the rain waited until an hour after she was laid in the ground.'