Charlotte Anzey Porter ^{1 2 3}

  Noted events in her life were:

1. She has conflicting death information of A different death date is in her brother's book, differing from the Find-A-Grave listing. And 15 Feb 1835. ¹

2. Book: Autobiography of brother Anthony Toomer Porter, 1898. ⁴
I remember one other circumstance in those early years, which made a deep impression on me. My oldest sister Charlotte, not quite fifteen years old, had always been a great sufferer from headaches. We were spending the summer of 1834 on North Island, our summer retreat on the Atlantic Ocean, at the mouth of Winyah Bay. My sister never went to school after our return from New Haven, but she was a great reader. The last book she read was The Last Days of Pompeii. As she finished the book, she remarked to my mother, "I will be like that blind girl." Mother, to divert her, ordered the carriage for a ride on the beach. Only those two were in the carriage, and after riding some time, my sister asked mother if she had not better order the coachman to return, as it was getting dark. "Oh, no," mother said, "it is still quite early, the sun has not gone down yet." Then my sister said, "If it is not night, I am blind, for I see nothing." And she was blind; she never saw again.

She lived until February 15, 1835, then died. It was the first time I ever saw anyone die. But the peace, the joy, of that departing spirit, going, as she said, to see all the beauties of heaven, where there is no more pain; the absolute rapture of the young saint, have never passed from my memory. I was then in my eighth year.