Virgil Reed Immekus was the firstborn child of Francis Isaac "Frank" Immekus and Lucy Anna Reed Immekus. Frank and Lucy married October 29th, 1904 and Lucy became pregnant with Virgil the following month. Frank and Lucy didn't have an official wedding portrait taken until 7 months after they married, when she was 6 months along and quite showing, with Virgil. It was a traveling photographer and grandpa asked him to come up to their house and take the portrait, without notifying grandma. Needless to say, she was not happy about it, because grandpa wanted to tell everyone that it was their wedding picture and she is obviously pregnant in the picture. Even into her old age, she talked about being pregnant with Virgil in the picture ( which was always sitting proudly in their living room ) and was afraid that people would think she was pregnant when she got married because grandpa always called it their wedding picture. I have the picture today. Virgil was the oldest of 10 children and died at 6 months of age. He was born in September of 1905 and died in April of 1906. He was buried near his paternal grandpa, Martin Luther Immekus, who had died not long before he did. His paternal Grandma- Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" West Immekus and his maternal grandparents, Grandpa- George Washington Reed and Grandma- Emma Thankful Phillips Reed, were later buried near him. A death certificate was not issued at the time of his death and his mother filed for a death certificate over 10 years later and the state got the data wrong on it. (They reversed the month and day of his birth, with the month and day of his death and got the years wrong. It was issued as him being born and dying in 1915, instead of being born in 1905 and dying in 1906.) She was very upset and tried to get it all corrected, but it was such a problem and so upsetting to her, that she stopped trying. Our family has always known this information about the death certificate being issued years afterward, upon request of his mother ( my great-grandmother) and about the information on it being incorrect. She used to talk about it being so upsetting to her. This is not just hearsay or stories passed down-I know this from my great-grandma's own mouth. As we all know, not all documents are correct. She mourned for Virgil for the rest of her life and would visit his gravesite quite often and sit there and cry and talk to him and to her family that went with her, saying how she missed him so much because he was her firstborn child. His 9 younger siblings were Roy Francis, Clyde, Mary, Edgar Eugene, George Leonard, William "Marvin", Robert "Leo", Imogene Louise and Emma "Lorene". Clyde and Mary also died in infancy- Clyde at about 2 weeks of age and Mary only lived a matter of days.