Unknown - Riverside Cemetery - Denver, CO, USA
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Outspoken1
N 39° 47.630 W 104° 57.481
13S E 503593 N 4404876
Poem on the rear of headstone of a 4-year-old child who had passed.
Waymark Code: WM14X6N
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 09/05/2021
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While I could not find the source of the poem, it is possible it came from a children's poetry book of the time. The poem reads:
Sleep on my
sweet one, sleep;
so early gone,
To earth a
child is lost,
To Heaven a
cherub born.
The front reads:
Nellie E.
Child of
Char & Nellie Hogue
[Downward rose]
Died Jan. 17, 1887
Aged
4Yrs.2Mos.
6Dys.
Address:
5201 N Brighton Blvd (though the actual entrance has been moved to the SE corner on York Street)
Denver, CO
USA
Website: Not listed
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