Charles F. Lummis was two years old when he experienced his first loss—the death of his mother from consumption on April 24, 1861, at their seaside home in Lynn, Massachusetts. She left behind her son and his two-month-old sister Louise Elma; their Methodist minister father; and a lifelong memory of his mother’s final whisper, “God, keep my little boy.”
Fearful as a motherless son, Lummis was home-
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