I added my Tomb Stone Tuesday for this week already but while looking threw my photos i kept coming back to baby Stephen Rhoads. i really cant tell you much about his family or what he died from.Mortality was high for infants and small children, especially for diphtheria, smallpox, yellow fever, and malaria. Born 28 Jan 1822, died 27 March 1824. Stephen is buried at Shafer School House Cemetery. It always amazes me when some stones are barley readable then you get a stone like this. Stephens stone looks like it was erected for him yesterday not 194 years ago!!! Child stone are normal small. His parents are Adam and Rebecca. i found little on them. i found a Adam in the 1840 census records for Hamilton Township, that census does not list wives or children. Thinking of baby Stephen. other photos; https://www.findagrave.com/me…/55175370/stephen-rhoads/photo
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