1916 (Thursday) – A great sorrow has come into our home since I wrote 8 weeks ago. On Thursday a.m. two o’clock a baby girl (Melba Lunt) was born. She was perfect beauty not in face but in form, weighing ten pounds. It seemed as if she were well prepared to start out on life’s journey, yet just three days later, at about two o’clock a.m., she left us again. My what a disappointment it was. I tried to look at it in a wise way and not grieve too hard, as I knew my getting well depended a great deal on my own actions and I know I was blessed for when I look back now I wonder how I passed through it as well as I did.
My sister Pearl Vickers (Eva Pearl Sperry) gave me a beautiful silk dress and pretty slip to bury the baby in. It was one on which she had spent a good deal of time to make it beautiful for her own baby (Vallon Sperry Vickers) to be blessed in that very day, so it must have been quite a sacrifice for her. I again had Ethel Gadd for my nurse. She was with me six and a half weeks, for at the end of the second week a phlebitis developed in my left leg and I’m not able to walk yet, only with crutches.
Della Shaw is still with me and she is a good girl taking care of things just the same as if I were around. I have certainly been lucky in having good girls to work for me when I’m sick.
We miss Ethel very much as she just left Monday and it’s rather hard for me to wait on myself after having such good care for so long.
While I was sick, Earl (Earl Sperry Lunt) and Arthur (George Arthur Lunt) had whooping cough, they are on the improve now. They think it very hard to always have to stay at home but have been very good to stay.
Loony Lunts and Company 