They had threatened that if she allowed herself to be baptised they would turn her out of doors.

Fanny was baptised and her parents made good the threat.

Their home was no longer her home.

She had the courage of her conviction--ability to suffer for a belief.
Such was the woman who subsequently became the wife of Abijah Garrison, and the mother of one of the greatest moral heroes of the century.
Abijah followed the sea, and she for several years with an increasing family followed Abijah.

First from one place and then another she glided after him in her early married life.