Adult Joe Wenteworth (Narrator) Our Sunday school teacher was an unhappy woman by the name of Miss Leavey. Her name suited her perfectly as she was always leaving class. Adult Joe Wenteworth (Narrator) I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice, not because of his voice or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death but because he is the reason I believe in God. What faith I have, I owe it to Simon Birch, a boy I grew up with in Gravestown, Maine. Adult Joe Wenteworth (Narrator) Simon Birch was the smallest delivery ever recorded in the history of Gravestown Memorial Hospital.