“ The force of her character and the strength of her convictions left, on convent and pupils, an impress which time has not effaced.
Summoned away at various periods to govern other houses of her order, Mother Tucker always returned to the place with which her life was identified. She died in Philadelphia, 1881. Under a plain cross of gray stone, erected by a faithful friend as a token of enduring gratitude, rests, on the fairest hillside of Eden, all that could die of that noble and gracious personality. Beside her tomb her old pupils and her religious sisters pray and remember. ”

“ The centenary of the society had certain special claims of a two-fold nature at Eden Hall, as it was understood to include the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the convent. Its golden jubilee coinciding with that of Manhattan, the local date was passed into combination with the centenary of the order. The former pupils of this beloved old home have, therefore, profited by the double commemoration to mark those sentiments of "loyalty and fidelity" of which this little book is a slight token "for remembrance." ”

“ Surveyors' deeds drawn up in 1679 by Richard Noble for Laers Laerson and Olaf Coeckel give the property the name of "Pleasant Hill," for it would seem that agreeable associations have always connected themselves with the spot. ”