Daughter of Wesley and Catherine Crisler. Inscription hard to read. A story I was told as a child is about a baby that was born and died during the Civil War. The southerners would bury any valuables such as silver and money so it would not be confiscated by the Yankees. Since the Yankees would dig up any freshly dug areas of ground, including graves, looking for valuables, the story was that a child was buried in the same grave as another child that had died earlier. The ground above the first baby's grave was very carefully lifted so as to look like it had not been disturbed. I suspect this child I had heard the story about is buried on top of Ora Crisler's grave. I got his name, Ervin Crisler, and information about his birth and death from the Wesley Crisler family Bible. This child lived for two months. No grave marker can be found in family plot for him.
Daughter of Wesley and Catherine Crisler. Inscription hard to read. A story I was told as a child is about a baby that was born and died during the Civil War. The southerners would bury any valuables such as silver and money so it would not be confiscated by the Yankees. Since the Yankees would dig up any freshly dug areas of ground, including graves, looking for valuables, the story was that a child was buried in the same grave as another child that had died earlier. The ground above the first baby's grave was very carefully lifted so as to look like it had not been disturbed. I suspect this child I had heard the story about is buried on top of Ora Crisler's grave. I got his name, Ervin Crisler, and information about his birth and death from the Wesley Crisler family Bible. This child lived for two months. No grave marker can be found in family plot for him.
Inscription
Ora
Daughter of Wesley and Catherine Crisler
Born June 28, 1859
Died Nov'r 26, 1860
Here lies a babe, a mother's pearl,
Caught up from earth to Heaven,
Her heart knows now 'twas only lent,
Before, she thought 'twas given,
Yes little sleeper, you're at rest,
Free from all earthly sin;
For Christ has said, unless like you,
We cannot enter in.
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