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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427861" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>William House and Family</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come all kind friends, both far and near, <br>Come listen to me and you shall hear -- <br>It's of a family and their fate, <br>All about them I will relate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They once did live at Edgerton, <br>They once did live at Muskegon, <br>From there they went to Chicago, <br>Which proved their fatal overthrow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was William House's family, <br>As fine a family as you see -- <br>His family was eleven in all, <br>I do not think it was very small.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two children died some years ago, <br>Before they went to Chicago, <br>Five children there he had with him, <br>When death his home there enters in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The small-pox then was raging there, <br>And Oh! it would not their house spare, <br>For all but one was sick of them, <br>A dreadful house it must have been.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The eldest girl was married then, <br>The eldest boy was in Michigan, <br>The second boy he was at home, <br>And took care of them all alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His father and his mother dear, <br>And dear sister, too, I hear, <br>Were very sick and in his care, <br>And no kind friends to help him there:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two little brothers, and a baby too, <br>Made six in all -- what could he do, <br>He had to take care of them all, <br>The baby, too, was very small.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As he would go to his father's bed, <br>And try to soothe his aching head, <br>&quot;My son, I pray you leave me, do <br>Go take care of poor mother, too.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Your mother and sister need your care, <br>And your little infant brother there; <br>Oh! Charlie, Charlie, take care of them, <br>My son, do all for them you can.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It seemed as though he did not know<br>That his poor soul so soon must go,<br>And leave his little ones he loved, <br>To go to that bright world above.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But God he called his soul away, <br>It had to leave, it could not stay -- <br>He never more on earth will be, <br>His soul is from sin and sorrow free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Charles helped the sexton, I am told, <br>To lay his form in the coffin cold --<br>How sad, how sad, poor soul was he, <br>When last his father's form did see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Minnie May House she had to go, <br>And leave her friends that loved her so --<br>She was a girl in her teens, <br>A lovely flower as e'er was seen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Minnie and her mother lay on one bed, <br>And when Charles said, &quot;our Minnie is dead,&quot; <br>His mother then she did grow wild, <br>And early after knew her child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They buried Minnie by her father's side, <br>And left them there where they had died --<br>Charles took his mother and brothers then <br>And brought them back to Michigan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the mother and the baby too, <br>Kind friends did all that they could do, <br>But those poor souls they could not save, <br>For now they're sleeping in their grave.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! what a noble son was he, <br>His age was then only sixteen --<br>Charles House's name I have told before <br>God bless his soul forever more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Julia+A+Moore">Julia A Moore</a><div class=q>
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Come listen to me and you shall hear -- 
It's of a family and their fate, 
All about them I will relate.

They once did live at Edgerton, 
They once did live at Muskegon, 
From there they went to Chicago,..."></div>
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