Faith Meredith

Faith Meredith was the third of John Meredith's four children. Although all the kids were independent, Faith was the most high-spirited. She was a positive young girl who laughed a lot and always thought she could fix things—right wrongs, heal relationships. When the manse kids discovered the runaway, Mary Vance, sleeping in a neighbor's hay loft, she was the first to embrace her and invite her home to eat and then to stay with them. Mary was wearing a dirty and tattered dress so Faith gave her one of her new dresses.

When Lida stopped by the house with some mackerel her father had caught, Faith was astounded to see that the little girl was shoeless and was walking barefooted in the cold mud and icy waters that covered the ground. Faith didn't think even a minute before she was taking her socks and shoes...