Note: "Notwithstanding their quiverful of seven, the Hobsons made room for invalid Mary; and even after her own widowhood in 1816, Ann still mothered her, with [brother William] Carey's faithful monetary aid, to the end of her long helplessness. By twenty-five she was paralytic. Then for fifty years she was confined to her sick-room - a grievous imprisoning for one taught by her brother so to love the fields and woods. For eleven years she could never speak, nor even whisper: then, strangely enough, after smallpox, she whispered a sentence or two with much pain; then again was soundless for twenty years. Her right arm was her only unparalysed limb. Yet her face shone, lit from within, a wonder and blessing to all who knew her...Loved of her sister's many children, she drew them to Christ. With a slate her only tongue, she led for years a Boxmoor Bible class in the pretty 'Moor End' cottage by the stream...Her pen was her soul's one outlet. She called it 'conversing,'and it was.
Polly's life came to an end in the winter of 1842. She was 75 years old. The cause of death was spinal disease and paralysis.
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