Child of John & Mary Brown
From: West Virginia Division of Culture and History:
John Brown with his wife Mary Ann and twelve children had moved to nearby Richfield earlier in 1842 after Brown entered into a business relationship with Heman Oviatt. Misfortune followed him there, however. In September 1843, after the family became ill with dysentery, four of John and Mary Ann's children—Sarah, Charles, Peter, and Austin—died. "This has been to us all a bitter cup indeed," John Brown wrote his son John Jr., then at the Grand River Institute in Austinburg, Ohio. The four children were buried in the cemetery in Richfield, accompanied by a religious marker inscription purportedly written by their father:
"Through all the dreary night of death
In peaceful slumbers may you rest,
And when eternal day shall dawn
And shades and death have past and gone,
O may you then with glad surprise
In God's own image wake and rise."
Another source: http://www.richfieldohiohistoricalsociety.org/richfield-history.html
Claims the children died from black diphtheria
From: West Virginia Division of Culture and History:
John Brown with his wife Mary Ann and twelve children had moved to nearby Richfield earlier in 1842 after Brown entered into a business relationship with Heman Oviatt. Misfortune followed him there, however. In September 1843, after the family became ill with dysentery, four of John and Mary Ann's children—Sarah, Charles, Peter, and Austin—died. "This has been to us all a bitter cup indeed," John Brown wrote his son John Jr., then at the Grand River Institute in Austinburg, Ohio. The four children were buried in the cemetery in Richfield, accompanied by a religious marker inscription purportedly written by their father:
"Through all the dreary night of death
In peaceful slumbers may you rest,
And when eternal day shall dawn
And shades and death have past and gone,
O may you then with glad surprise
In God's own image wake and rise."
Another source: http://www.richfieldohiohistoricalsociety.org/richfield-history.html
Claims the children died from black diphtheria
Child of John & Mary Brown
From: West Virginia Division of Culture and History:
John Brown with his wife Mary Ann and twelve children had moved to nearby Richfield earlier in 1842 after Brown entered into a business relationship with Heman Oviatt. Misfortune followed him there, however. In September 1843, after the family became ill with dysentery, four of John and Mary Ann's children—Sarah, Charles, Peter, and Austin—died. "This has been to us all a bitter cup indeed," John Brown wrote his son John Jr., then at the Grand River Institute in Austinburg, Ohio. The four children were buried in the cemetery in Richfield, accompanied by a religious marker inscription purportedly written by their father:
"Through all the dreary night of death
In peaceful slumbers may you rest,
And when eternal day shall dawn
And shades and death have past and gone,
O may you then with glad surprise
In God's own image wake and rise."
Another source: http://www.richfieldohiohistoricalsociety.org/richfield-history.html
Claims the children died from black diphtheria
From: West Virginia Division of Culture and History:
John Brown with his wife Mary Ann and twelve children had moved to nearby Richfield earlier in 1842 after Brown entered into a business relationship with Heman Oviatt. Misfortune followed him there, however. In September 1843, after the family became ill with dysentery, four of John and Mary Ann's children—Sarah, Charles, Peter, and Austin—died. "This has been to us all a bitter cup indeed," John Brown wrote his son John Jr., then at the Grand River Institute in Austinburg, Ohio. The four children were buried in the cemetery in Richfield, accompanied by a religious marker inscription purportedly written by their father:
"Through all the dreary night of death
In peaceful slumbers may you rest,
And when eternal day shall dawn
And shades and death have past and gone,
O may you then with glad surprise
In God's own image wake and rise."
Another source: http://www.richfieldohiohistoricalsociety.org/richfield-history.html
Claims the children died from black diphtheria
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