Notes for Abigail CLARK

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Notes for Abigail CLARK

In an article entitled "Former Physicans of Elizabethtown" in the Elizabeth
"Daily Herald" of 3 February 1875 Mr. William Hall recounted the life of Mrs. Hetfield:
'When, as Abigail Clark, a blooming maiden of eighteen, she gave her heart and hand to Morris Hetfield in 1780, she got back to her grandmother's family name and blood. She was a remarkable woman, in many respects; a woman of a great force of character, of great resolution, system, devotion to the right, prudence and enlarged views in the management of her children and household affairs, and above all, of immovable trust in God and in the Bible as the rule of life and the title-deed to a better home above.' 'In that goodly earthly home, she lived to her 96th year, dying in 1858, There amid her little group of children, she must have had many a pleasant visit from her brother, the Doctor, who lived about a mile distant in the central street of the town...'
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