Show I 1 ROM I 1 IN leftt probable reason why quaker pta PA never married the secret ot of the long bachelor life 11 e of john 0 whittier the quaker poet was revealed reveal nd by tho the death in extreme old ago age ot the woman he once lovely and from whom he be was parted she was wag evelina bray born in marabl head bead mass in 1810 they attended school together as youth and maiden and living in the same neighborhood they saw aaa much of each other but when villen whittier went to visit his love at her home a little later in life he was mas not admitted to the house miss brays parents were firmly set against any love affair between the 4 1 vl X 2 ar i P e I 1 t I 1 arte rte I 1 A T V I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 9 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 aa 1 1 11 I 1 P av A at I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 y I 1 3 J I 1 ea 11 JJ i it til fl 11 I 1 aa I 1 A 71 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 11 I 1 con couple pie at tle age ot of 19 whittier and mils bray who mho was but 17 resolved that they should part and never dever see each other again the wonder la Is that they should have kept the promise miss bray moving to the west married a clergyman named william S downey who became a street preacher and tract distributor in the fervor ot of his zeal when whittier left considerable property ot of which was waa devised to the amesbury home tor for old women as it if in prophetic vision of the lay day which finally came when mrs downey applied tor for admission to the honie home as aa a youth friend ot of the poet she would have been received without doubt but died shortly after making application |