Oh, For a Home of Rest!

Oh, For a Home of Rest!

by Eliza Paul Kirkbride GURNEY (1801 - 1881)

Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney was a Quaker minister who, when her husband Joseph John Gurney died in 1847, continued the labours of a traveling minister. She corresponded with Abraham Lincoln, who was found to have a two year old letter from Eliza, carefully “treasured up” by him in his breast pocket when assassinated. - Summary by David Lawrence