MAY IRENE STONEBURNER was the first born child of Arthur Elmer Stoneburner and Cora Agnes Sine Stoneburner, May died when she was only 7 years old from Meningitis. She had one living sibling, Olive Elizabeth Stoneburner (Miller) who was 2 years old at the time of her death.
The story was told that when May's parents tried to move her body to Union Forge Cemetery where her parents had gravesites that authorities would not let her body be exhumed due to the fear that the disease that had killed her could possibly be spread. Her family sadly were compelled to leave her body at Columbia Furnace where it lies near her grandparents, Nelson and Mary Elizabeth Lear Sine and next to her great grandmother, Matilda Helsley under a huge spreading oak tree in the stately old stone-walled Columbia Furnace Union Church Cemetery.
The portrait of this beautiful child hung in the living room of her family's home at Readus until her father's death in 1975 and it now graces the home of her niece who proudly displays it.
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The story was told that when May's parents tried to move her body to Union Forge Cemetery where her parents had gravesites that authorities would not let her body be exhumed due to the fear that the disease that had killed her could possibly be spread. Her family sadly were compelled to leave her body at Columbia Furnace where it lies near her grandparents, Nelson and Mary Elizabeth Lear Sine and next to her great grandmother, Matilda Helsley under a huge spreading oak tree in the stately old stone-walled Columbia Furnace Union Church Cemetery.
The portrait of this beautiful child hung in the living room of her family's home at Readus until her father's death in 1975 and it now graces the home of her niece who proudly displays it.
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MAY IRENE STONEBURNER was the first born child of Arthur Elmer Stoneburner and Cora Agnes Sine Stoneburner, May died when she was only 7 years old from Meningitis. She had one living sibling, Olive Elizabeth Stoneburner (Miller) who was 2 years old at the time of her death.
The story was told that when May's parents tried to move her body to Union Forge Cemetery where her parents had gravesites that authorities would not let her body be exhumed due to the fear that the disease that had killed her could possibly be spread. Her family sadly were compelled to leave her body at Columbia Furnace where it lies near her grandparents, Nelson and Mary Elizabeth Lear Sine and next to her great grandmother, Matilda Helsley under a huge spreading oak tree in the stately old stone-walled Columbia Furnace Union Church Cemetery.
The portrait of this beautiful child hung in the living room of her family's home at Readus until her father's death in 1975 and it now graces the home of her niece who proudly displays it.
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The story was told that when May's parents tried to move her body to Union Forge Cemetery where her parents had gravesites that authorities would not let her body be exhumed due to the fear that the disease that had killed her could possibly be spread. Her family sadly were compelled to leave her body at Columbia Furnace where it lies near her grandparents, Nelson and Mary Elizabeth Lear Sine and next to her great grandmother, Matilda Helsley under a huge spreading oak tree in the stately old stone-walled Columbia Furnace Union Church Cemetery.
The portrait of this beautiful child hung in the living room of her family's home at Readus until her father's death in 1975 and it now graces the home of her niece who proudly displays it.
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Inscription
May Irene daughter of A. E. and C. A. Stoneburner
1909 - 1916
Gravesite Details
Date of death entered as Aug 26 (28?) 1916 in Paul Stoneburner records
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