This child lived for two months. No grave marker found in family plot. 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, this child was buried in the same grave as another baby 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 is the child I had heard the story about and I believe him to be buried on top of Ora Crisler's grave. I got his name and information from the Wesley Crisler family Bible.
This child lived for two months. No grave marker found in family plot. 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, this child was buried in the same grave as another baby 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 is the child I had heard the story about and I believe him to be buried on top of Ora Crisler's grave. I got his name and information from the Wesley Crisler family Bible.
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