"The newspaper calls her Eleanor, while Oak Hill sexton John Goodge wrote in his original Oak Hill register -- Ellen Johnson -- 2 years old. After examining the family history, I think they are both correct. She was no doubt named for her aunt Eleanor Johnson Foster who died in 1849. There is documentation that this Eleanor was known as Ellen by her family.
It had to be late in the afternoon by the time the hearse carrying the little girl's body completed its journey from the home on Locust Street to the new cemetery, a distance of approximately a mile and a half. At the grave on this hillside her mother, father, two half sisters and half brother gathered to say farewell to their loved one."
Oak Hill Cemetery Records
Fielding had married Ellen's mother, his 3rd wife, Mary Veale, who was thirteen years his junior, in December 1849. By that time, he had buried 2 sons and 2 wives.
Daughter of Fielding and Mary M. Johnson.
First person to be buried in this cemetery.
This is according to research conducted by William E. Bartlett, "Eleanor 'Ellen' Johnson, Oak Hill's First Interment, Delivered February 18, 2003" found on Google Scholar.∼2y 1st burial in big new cemetry
It had to be late in the afternoon by the time the hearse carrying the little girl's body completed its journey from the home on Locust Street to the new cemetery, a distance of approximately a mile and a half. At the grave on this hillside her mother, father, two half sisters and half brother gathered to say farewell to their loved one."
Oak Hill Cemetery Records
Fielding had married Ellen's mother, his 3rd wife, Mary Veale, who was thirteen years his junior, in December 1849. By that time, he had buried 2 sons and 2 wives.
Daughter of Fielding and Mary M. Johnson.
First person to be buried in this cemetery.
This is according to research conducted by William E. Bartlett, "Eleanor 'Ellen' Johnson, Oak Hill's First Interment, Delivered February 18, 2003" found on Google Scholar.∼2y 1st burial in big new cemetry
"The newspaper calls her Eleanor, while Oak Hill sexton John Goodge wrote in his original Oak Hill register -- Ellen Johnson -- 2 years old. After examining the family history, I think they are both correct. She was no doubt named for her aunt Eleanor Johnson Foster who died in 1849. There is documentation that this Eleanor was known as Ellen by her family.
It had to be late in the afternoon by the time the hearse carrying the little girl's body completed its journey from the home on Locust Street to the new cemetery, a distance of approximately a mile and a half. At the grave on this hillside her mother, father, two half sisters and half brother gathered to say farewell to their loved one."
Oak Hill Cemetery Records
Fielding had married Ellen's mother, his 3rd wife, Mary Veale, who was thirteen years his junior, in December 1849. By that time, he had buried 2 sons and 2 wives.
Daughter of Fielding and Mary M. Johnson.
First person to be buried in this cemetery.
This is according to research conducted by William E. Bartlett, "Eleanor 'Ellen' Johnson, Oak Hill's First Interment, Delivered February 18, 2003" found on Google Scholar.∼2y 1st burial in big new cemetry
It had to be late in the afternoon by the time the hearse carrying the little girl's body completed its journey from the home on Locust Street to the new cemetery, a distance of approximately a mile and a half. At the grave on this hillside her mother, father, two half sisters and half brother gathered to say farewell to their loved one."
Oak Hill Cemetery Records
Fielding had married Ellen's mother, his 3rd wife, Mary Veale, who was thirteen years his junior, in December 1849. By that time, he had buried 2 sons and 2 wives.
Daughter of Fielding and Mary M. Johnson.
First person to be buried in this cemetery.
This is according to research conducted by William E. Bartlett, "Eleanor 'Ellen' Johnson, Oak Hill's First Interment, Delivered February 18, 2003" found on Google Scholar.∼2y 1st burial in big new cemetry
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