“I am not afraid to die, for death to me is but the threshold of a higher, purer, and more glorious life.”
About Achsa White Sprague
17 November 1827–6 July 1862
Achsa White Sprague was born on 17 November 1827 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, a small mountain community whose austere beauty and close social fabric helped form her imagination. She died there on 6 July 1862, only thirty-four years old by the modern method of counting age, though many nineteenth-century notices…