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Marge, I don't know how 1902 ended up on Lester's tombstone. He must have been born in 1898 if he died at age 3 in 1901. His death date was July 29, 1901.
Clinton Register
DeWitt County, Illinois
Friday, August 2, 1901
Monday afternoon Lester, nearly three years old, the little son of Charles Ackerson, living two and a half miles east of town, got upon a chair and secured a bottle of carbolic acid. He drank a small quantity and spilled some of the contents upon his body. The services of a physician were procured, but in a few hours the little one died in great agony. The remains were interred in Rock Creek cemetery Tuesday afternoon. The parents are nearly crazed with grief. This should be a warning to parents to be more careful of poisons.
contributor Judy Simpson
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thank you Judy,,, sometimes new tombstones are put up by the family and people sometime error in memory. My own great grandfather has the wrong date on his newer stone....
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Marge, I don't know how 1902 ended up on Lester's tombstone. He must have been born in 1898 if he died at age 3 in 1901. His death date was July 29, 1901.
Clinton Register
DeWitt County, Illinois
Friday, August 2, 1901
Monday afternoon Lester, nearly three years old, the little son of Charles Ackerson, living two and a half miles east of town, got upon a chair and secured a bottle of carbolic acid. He drank a small quantity and spilled some of the contents upon his body. The services of a physician were procured, but in a few hours the little one died in great agony. The remains were interred in Rock Creek cemetery Tuesday afternoon. The parents are nearly crazed with grief. This should be a warning to parents to be more careful of poisons.
contributor Judy Simpson
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thank you Judy,,, sometimes new tombstones are put up by the family and people sometime error in memory. My own great grandfather has the wrong date on his newer stone....
Their suggestion:
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Marge, I don't know how 1902 ended up on Lester's tombstone. He must have been born in 1898 if he died at age 3 in 1901. His death date was July 29, 1901.
Clinton Register
DeWitt County, Illinois
Friday, August 2, 1901
Monday afternoon Lester, nearly three years old, the little son of Charles Ackerson, living two and a half miles east of town, got upon a chair and secured a bottle of carbolic acid. He drank a small quantity and spilled some of the contents upon his body. The services of a physician were procured, but in a few hours the little one died in great agony. The remains were interred in Rock Creek cemetery Tuesday afternoon. The parents are nearly crazed with grief. This should be a warning to parents to be more careful of poisons.
contributor Judy Simpson
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thank you Judy,,, sometimes new tombstones are put up by the family and people sometime error in memory. My own great grandfather has the wrong date on his newer stone....
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Marge, I don't know how 1902 ended up on Lester's tombstone. He must have been born in 1898 if he died at age 3 in 1901. His death date was July 29, 1901.
Clinton Register
DeWitt County, Illinois
Friday, August 2, 1901
Monday afternoon Lester, nearly three years old, the little son of Charles Ackerson, living two and a half miles east of town, got upon a chair and secured a bottle of carbolic acid. He drank a small quantity and spilled some of the contents upon his body. The services of a physician were procured, but in a few hours the little one died in great agony. The remains were interred in Rock Creek cemetery Tuesday afternoon. The parents are nearly crazed with grief. This should be a warning to parents to be more careful of poisons.
contributor Judy Simpson
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thank you Judy,,, sometimes new tombstones are put up by the family and people sometime error in memory. My own great grandfather has the wrong date on his newer stone....
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