Everyone came to visit Little Eva while she was sick.
From The Moving Picture
World notice:
. . . After two years little Eva's illness becomes so bad she appears
to be undergoing a process of translation and looks more like a vision of
immortality in the midst of mortal things. Often she talks with Uncle Tom about
Heaven with an understanding that makes Tom think, and everybody else for that
matter, that she is not long for this world. These suppositions are well
founded, for it is not long before Eva is seen on her bed surrounded by her
parents, Aunt Ophelia, Uncle Tom and the servants of the family. She bids each
one good-bye, giving each some little keepsake, . . .