He would not leave her.

Her feet were on the Rock.'" To this testimony to his mother's worth The General added:-- "To those whose eyes may fall on these lines, may I not be excused saying, 'See to it that you honour your father and your mother, not only that your days may be long in the land, but that you may not, in after years, be disturbed by useless longings to have back again the precious ones who so ceaselessly and unselfishly toiled with heart and brain for your profoundest well-being.' "My mother and father were both Derbyshire people.

They were born within a few miles of each other, the former at Somercotes, a small village within a mile or two of Alfreton and the latter at Belper.
My mother's father was a well-to-do farmer.

Her mother died when she was three years of age; and, her father marrying again, she was taken to the heart and home of a kind uncle and aunt, who reared and educated her, giving her at the same time a sound religious training.
"Years passed of which we have but imperfect knowledge during which, by some means, she drifted to the small town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch.

Here she met my father, who was availing himself of the waters as a remedy for his chronic enemy, rheumatism.