 Now her mother, Caroline, was also ill, and not too long after her baby, she too lay at death's door. Before she died, she exacted a promise of her husband, Jedidiah, that he would take her to the valley and bury her there, and then he would go back and get little Margaret and bring her to rest with her mother in the valley. Accordingly, Jedidiah and a friend, Joseph Bates Noble, set out to retrieve little Margaret.