October 17, 2014
I was reading this old newspaper and noticed that obituary after obituary was for young children.
So many reports of very young children dying early deaths in this old newspaper article:
- Martha Banks, aged 1 year, 11 months and 2 days
- Arthur Lincoln Vaughan, aged 6 months and 12 days
- Caroline E. Hein, aged 11 months and 13 days
August 1875 was clearly a brutal month for children and their families in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
It is so tragic that their lives ended at such a young age.
It would be easy for this information to be lost, leaving these children’s short lives forgotten. It’s comforting to know that I can find these death records in GenealogyBank, knowing that these youngest members of the family will not be lost to the family history we are compiling—that their lives, though painfully short, are permanently recorded in the family tree.
Because newspaper editors were so good about including their age in years, months and days, it is easy to compute their dates of birth from the information contained in the death records.
Make every effort to find and document every person in your family tree.
We can do this.
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