Philadelphia Saturday Courier 17 January 1835 Deaths

Finding long forgotten children in a family can be tough, especially when no one remembers them being alive.  Sometimes, it is only the chance finding the name in a death notice or the name in a family plot. I know, because this is how I have found several children who died as infants or small children in my own bloodlines.

Look at today's transcriptions and notice the number of young deaths.  It was winter in 1835. Was it a particularly cold winter?  Were the children born "sickly"? Or was it just one of those times in history?

Photo by Andrew Hoffmann

BRADFORD		Joseph B				32d yr
MOSER		Philip				64y
PEECHIN		Christiana				88th yr
MORGAN		Caotn Thomas				66 y
BEALE		Benjamin H		s/o Matthias/Margaret		6m6d
ALBRIGHT		Samuel McFate		s/o Peter/Elizabeth Albright
STARK		BOLLING				26th yr
DYKE		John Sr				70 yr
JENKINS		Hannah L		w/o Joshua C d/o T Wilson Moore		21st yr
GIBSON		Edward		s/o John		9th yr
PETERS		Sarah Ann		w/o Joseph		19th yr
CROSBY		John D		s/o Robert P		22nd yr
HENDERSON		Martha
POULSON		Daniel C		s/o Wm/Martha		8m23d
KIRK		Hyman G				30th yr
ESENWEIN		Emma Louise		d/o Charles		infant
THUM		Ellen		d/o Charles/Sarah		infant
MOODY		David P		s/o Paul		20 mo
VANHOLT		Valentine
WATSON		Mercey		w/o Marmaduke
PARKE		Dr Thomas				86th yr
SHEPHERD		Hannah				69th yr
BRINCKLE		Dr John				71st yr
BOYER		James				68th yr
MASON		Mary		w/o Joseph		43 y5m
DRAKE		Jane Cunningham		d/o Dr Alfred		19 mo
CARTER		Mary Ann

Ahh, genealogy.  Seeing and feeling the heartbreaks of young lives lost.

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