Wednesday’s Child
is one of the daily blogging prompts at Geneabloggers that features gravestones
of children.
16 Dec 1853 – 27 Oct 1862
Artubine Joseph Jollett was my first cousin 3 times
removed. He was born the first child of
my second great grand uncle John Wesley Jollett and his wife Sarah Elizabeth
Smith. He lived his short life along
Naked Creek in Page County, Virginia. He is buried in the Jollett United Methodist Church Cemetery on the hill behind the church.
©2014, Wendy
Mathias. All rights reserved.
We have a Wednesday's Child feature on our news station - to help foster children find adoptive homes. Wonder what happened to Artubine. Was there a breakout of illness? Was he in some kind of accident? Curious post that makes me want to know more...
ReplyDeleteI wonder too. My money is on an epidemic. I could probably find out if I tried, but so far I haven't.
DeleteArtubine.......now there's a name you don't see every day!
ReplyDeleteNo, you don't. In one census, he's listed as Joseph O, as in Otterbein who was the founder of the United Brethren Church which merged with the Methodists. John Wesley Jollett was a Methodist minister, so I wonder if the name came from his appreciation of Phillip Otterbein. I don't know what happened with the spelling though.
DeleteHi Wendy...I'm always drawn to infant and children headstones when I photograph headstones for Find A Grave. The older ones are very interesting. It's good that your little cousin's has important details...so many don't.
ReplyDeleteThis headstone interests me because it's metal, not stone. It's the only one like it in the cemetery, I do believe.
DeleteThe reason he died would be interesting to learn.
ReplyDeleteToo sad.
What an interesting first name. Have you ever heard of it before or nowadays?
ReplyDeleteNope, he's the only one I know of.
DeleteLike Sue, I'm drawn to the graves of children when I visit old cemeteries (or the old sections of "newer" cemeteries). I'm always curious about what happened to them. Sad.
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