Then Again: ‘There Shall Be No Pain’

A monument to Horace Wells at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut, declares “There Shall Be No Pain.” A panel on the side of the monument features the words “I Awaken to Glory.” Wikimedia Commons photo
Editor’s note: Mark Bushnell is a Vermont journalist and historian. He is the author of “Hidden History of Vermont” and “It Happened in Vermont.”The letter was everything Horace Wells could have wished. A friend was writing to report t