Plaque 15

Infant

With january snows upon the ground, the eldest of the Huber daughters, Mary, carried byuckets from the icy crek to do her wash. She slipped and fell, just seven months with child, causing its birth. The women wrapped the babe in cotton wads. Then he was "dried with green wood" in tiny box they set upon the oven shelf, the door ajar. The monarch woodstove incubated him until his safety came. Her child lived 97 years. 

Man himself many boast of wisdom, but it shuns the tooth of time. All the truth that ever did come came by right and truth divine. 

And the truth, by rich and poor seeketh forian open door. Still and gentley does it come to the human heart and home.