Chapter 13: Baby

1867

The fruit trees were blooming and wild flowers lined the old road when their baby arrived. Caroline labored for most of a night and nearly the whole next day with the midwife's help. It was a tiny girl, a fine, pink, cooing little girl, and they named her Amanda after Caroline's late mother.

Amanda was almost seven months old when she died. Pneumonia the doctor said over her swollen body. The ground was not frozen yet so they buried her near Robert's father in the hillside cemetery near the old Presbyterian church where Caroline and Robert had been married.