Married Life
The marriage of Samuel and Mary Booth produced two boys and three girls: Henry, Ann, William, Emma, and Mary. Henry died as a young child. William was destined to be the founder of The Salvation Army. Emma was an invalid throughout her entire life and, after forty years, she died without ever marrying. Mary eventually became Mary Newell, and she lived until she was 69.
Samuel had been a gentleman and quite well-to-do when he and Mary had married, however business turned sour and they slowly became poor. Much of the rest of Mary Booth's married life was spent anxiously anticipating the changes in her husband's fortune, which only went from bad to worse. She worked to raise her children, but she did not grow close to them or seek their education. When Samuel's rheumatism worsened, she nursed him until he died.
William was eventually to say of her:
| “ | I loved my mother. From infancy to manhood I lived in her. Home was not home to me without her. I do not remember any single act of wilful disobedience to her wishes. When my father died I was so passionately attached to my mother that I can recollect that, deeply though I felt his loss, my grief was all but forbidden by the thought that it was not my mother who had been taken from me. | ” |
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