Tuesday, June 2, 2015

John and Frances Narcissa McConnell brought nine babies into the world.  Only three of them lived to be adults.  These did not.


Simeon Theofulus McConnell:  28 February 1868 - 19 September 1879
Lewis McConnell: 20 January 1870 - 20 January 1870
Luther McConnell: 20 Jan 1871 - 20 Jan 1871
Lucy McConnell: 20 Jan 1871 - 20 Jan 1871

Meake E. McConnell: 20 Aug 1872 - 20 August 1872

Mary Delilah McConnell: 26 Jan 1876 - 02 Feb 1876

It is hard to understand how parents could live through so many sad times.  In one of the family cemeteries in Barren County, Kentucky, there are many small stones with no names on them, now tucked over in a corner but probably once over the tiny plots of babies.  They might even be for these McConnell children, but we won't ever know.  So we'll let them be remembered here - the tiniest of Immortal Nobodies.

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