This week I am remembering my Grandma's older brother, Weston Lively Rosan. He was born on December 16, 1899, to John and Clara Belle (Lively) Rosan, in DuQuoin, IL. He was their first child.
Weston was sickly as a baby, according to my Grandma (who wasn't born yet, but she remembered hearing about it). He passed away on March 2, 1902, at the age of 2 years old.
His cause of death is listed as "enteritis, with bronchitis for 12 days as the immediate complication."
My Grandma used to talk about going to visit Weston's grave when she was a child. She said that there were still toys and small stuffed animals laying at his grave. She also remembered there had been a lamb figure on top of his stone. The lamb is long gone now, but his stone remains.
Weston is buried in Nine Mile Cemetery, in rural Perry County, IL. I continue to visit and decorate his grave every Spring.
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