Unto Children's Children
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Even though the lamp light turned his hair to a soft gold, its shadows turned the sadness on his face into harsh lines aging him beyond his young years. A tear trickled down his face without his seeming to realize it. The journal in front of him remained open to the first page. The year was 1826. His life was just turning beyond the school boy stage with adventure and choices before him. Now this. How could he continue now. His deep sigh seemed to reverberate around the small room and echo off the walls and return to him in a soft whisper. He lifted his head and looked at the ceiling. A flicker of pain crossed his face. "Why, God? Are you really there in all of this?" Even as the harsh words escaped his lips, he felt a small lifting of the pain. Reluctantly, and yet with a sense of purpose, he turned to the journal his mother had less than an hour ago given him to read. His father had started this during the early years of his marriage. As he started to read the first entry, he could almost feel his father's presence.
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This is a fiction novel based on the life of Benjamin Phelps, born at Sand Lake New York. In 1810, his parents, as with other families, were on their way west. Illness and death brought an end to their dream, when upon the death of their pastor, they were charged with taking the pastors three-year-old son back to Connecticut. to his only relative. Circumstances back home in Connecticut made it necessary for the family to live with Fanny's grandfather on his farm, where Ben and Matt grew up as brothers. Matt's uncle was unable to care for him until in his early teen years. When he took both boys to Boston on one of his business trips, they were fortunate to hear Daniel Webster speak out against slavery. It awoke such a great interest in world affairs that from then on, Uncle Jon took great interest in their education. In 1826 they were allowed to go by horse back on an adventure of exploration and work down the east coast to the southern states. This came to an end at Washington City, the nations Capital, when they received a summons to return home, Papa in bad accident. Because of his death and burial before they could get home, it brought to an end Ben's carefree life and set him on a search for his destiny.
About the Author
Lillian Pearson, born in New Hampshire, now lives in a small town in Delaware where she has resided all her married and widowed life. Pearson started the manuscript for Unto Children's Children in 1980. Her only work published to date was an essay on health and aging in 1997, and an award-winning letter, among 240 others, published by Rutledge Books, Inc.