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The notion of death could not get hold of him and he was in fact a little annoyed that his mother had died on that day . He had just received a note from Helen White , the daughter of the town banker , in answer to one from him . `` Tonight I could have gone to see her and now it will have to be put off , '' he thought half angrily . Elizabeth died on a Friday afternoon at three o'clock . It had been cold and rainy in the morning but in the afternoon the sun came out . Before she died she lay paralyzed for six days unable to speak or move and with only her mind and her eyes alive . For three of the six days she struggled , thinking of her boy , trying to say some few words in regard to his future , and in her eyes there was an appeal so touching that all who saw it kept the memory of the dying woman in their minds for years .