With this supply she was enabled to accomplish her object, and arrived in Edinburgh with her family.  Her friend Mrs. Brown met her there, and stayed with her a few days, to comfort and patronize her in her new undertaking.  Mrs. Brown was her warm and constant friend until her death, which occurred at Paisley in 1782, when she was attending the communion.  She bequeathed her daughter Mary to Mrs. Graham’s care.  But in 1785 the daughter followed the mother, being cut off by a fever in the twelfth year of her age.

It may be proper here to introduce the name of Mr. George Anderson, a merchant in Glasgow, who had been an early and particular friend of Dr. Graham.  He kindly offered his friendly services, and the use of his purse, to promote the welfare of the bereaved family of his friend.  Mrs. Graham occasionally drew upon both.  The money she borrowed she had the satisfaction of repaying with interest.  A correspondence was carried on between them after Mrs. Graham’s removal to America, until the death of Mr. Anderson, in 1802.

During her residence in Edinburgh she was honored with the friendship and counsel of many persons of distinction and piety.  The Viscountess Glenorchy, Lady Boss Baillie, Lady Jane Belches, Mrs. Walter Scott, mother of the poet, Mrs. Dr. Davidson, and Mrs. Baillie Walker, were among her warm personal friends.  The Rev. Dr. Erskine, and Dr. Davidson, formerly the Rev. Mr. Randall of Glasgow, and many respectable clergymen, were also her friends.  She and her family attended on the ministry of Dr. Davidson, an able, evangelical, useful pastor.

Her school soon became respectable in numbers and character.  Her early and superior education now proved of essential service to her.  She was indefatigable in her attention to the instruction of her pupils.  While she was faithful in giving them those accomplishments which were to qualify them for acting a distinguished part in this world, she was also zealous in directing their attention to that gospel by which they were instructed to obtain an inheritance in that to come.  She felt a high responsibility, and took a deep interest in their temporal and spiritual welfare.  As “a mother in Israel,” she wished to train them up in the ways of the Lord.

She prayed with them morning and evening; and on the Sabbath, which she was careful to devote to its proper use, she took great pains to imbue their minds with the truths of religion.  Nor did she labor in vain.  Although she was often heard to lament of how little use she had been compared with her opportunities of doing good, yet when her children, Mr. and Mrs. B. visited Scotland in 1801, they heard of many individuals, then pious and exemplary, who dated their first religious impressions from those seasons of early instruction which they enjoyed under Mrs. Graham while in Edinburgh.