Heartbreaking stories, such as this one where the child wishes to visit her mother in heaven, always bring a knot to my throat and make me hope that there truly is a life after death.
As reported in a newspaper:
A little girl, four years old, daughter of Dr. J. N. Banks, Corner of Buffalo street and Edina place was found yesterday drowned in the cistern attached to her father’s premises. But a few months since Dr. B. lost his wife, who died and left him this one treasured relic of herself, a lovely and prattling child. It appears the little one had been missed and was supposed to have strayed away, when the aid of the public crier was called in to discover her. While he was engaged in this purpose about the neighborhood, the child was found dead in the cistern. It is a remarkable circumstance that the little innocent, but a few hours before, expressed a wish “to go and see mamma.” The Fates must have heard her, and, from sympathy with her motherless condition on earth, have sent those angels who are constant in their attendance upon the young and pure, to bear her to her mother’s side in heaven. (1859)
