Lester Blair, 18961900 (aged 4 years)

Name
Lester /Blair/
Given names
Lester
Surname
Blair
Birth
Type: Birth of Blair, Lester
4 September 1896 22 19
Colorado, Texas, United States of America
Latitude: 29.645095 Longitude: -96.514893
State: Texas
Country: United States of America
Burial of a father
Address line 2: Osage Cemetery
State: Texas
Country: United States of America
INDI:EVEN:ADDR:NOTE: @N0782@
Burial of a mother
Address line 2: Osage Cemetery
State: Texas
Country: United States of America
INDI:EVEN:ADDR:NOTE: @N0782@
Death
Type: Death of Blair, Lester
16 September 1900 (aged 4 years)
Osage, Coryell, Texas, United States of America
Latitude: 31.524608 Longitude: -97.56474
State: Texas
Country: United States of America
Burial
Type: Burial of Blair, Lester
17 September 1900 (1 day after death)
Address line 2: Osage Cemetery
State: Texas
Country: United States of America
INDI:BURI:ADDR:NOTE: @N0782@
Family with parents
father
18741926
Birth: 4 March 1874 23 18 Colorado, Texas, United States of America
Death: 16 June 1926Weimar, Colorado, Texas, United States of America
mother
18771945
Birth: 22 January 1877Colorado, Texas, United States of America
Death: 10 November 1945
himself
18961900
Birth: 4 September 1896 22 19 Colorado, Texas, United States of America
Death: 16 September 1900Osage, Coryell, Texas, United States of America
4 years
younger brother
younger sister
Private
Burial
Shared note

Osage Cemetery
Origin of name: after the community in which it is located
Location: at the intersection of County Roads 205 and 208
Map: 2996-313, Borden Quadrangle (marked)
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinates: 14, 720878E, 3292198N (NAD83/WGS84)
Earliest known year of death: 1867
Earliest known year of birth: 1788
Most recent known burial: 2007
Racial mix: all white
Comments: 1. On July 21, 1875, Rowan and Leonora Dixie Green deeded a single acre for the cemetery to the trustees of Osage Cemetery (see Colorado County Deed Records, Book S, p. 165).
2. William Bennett Scates and his wife, Sarah Ann Scates, were originally buried in the Osage Cemetery. Both were moved to the Texas State Cemetery in Austin in 1929. William B. Scates, who was born June 27, 1802 and died February 22, 1882, was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and a soldier at the Battle of San Jacinto. His wife, the daughter of John and Margaret (Edwards) McMillan, lived from July 28, 1819 until April 28, 1881. She married William B. Scates on March 25, 1850. Earlier she was married to a man named Wilson.
Surveyors: unknown
Date surveyed: unknown
Auditors: Bill Stein
Date audited: 1988
Number of known burials to date: 172

from http://www.columbustexas.net/library/cemeteries/abtcem.htm

Shared note

From http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcolora/obits/obitsblair.htm

Died, at the family home northeast of Weimar late Sunday afternoon, the little son [Lester] of Mr. & Mrs. Elmer D. Blair, after an illness of only five days, of a combination of bilious fever and hemorrhage of the bowels. This bright and interesting little child was seen by the writer only a few days ago when he ran out to kiss his papa goodbye as the latter was leaving home for a few hours. Then he was the picture of health. So evident was the strong tie between the grown man and the little child that it attracted attention and comment on our part. We little knew or thought at that time that death was lurking near that happy, contented home. But God knows what is best for us, and although the temptation is strong to question his decree in this instance at least, the sorrowing hearts are bowed down and feeble lips murmur "Thy will be done." Our sincere and heartfelt sympathy is extended Mr. and Mrs. Blair in the loss of their beloved child. God pity and comfort them, is our sincere wish. The little body was laid to rest in the cemetery at Osage Monday Afternoon.

Weimar Mercury, 22 September 1900
From the files of Dorothy Albrecht

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