Family
His wife Harriet died in 1864, leaving three sons—Gerard, George William, and John Fergusson—and four daughters. Of them Gerard Moultrie and Mary Moultrie were also known as hymn writers.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.”
—Valerie Solanas (b. 1940)