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Boy Triplet Shown

Birth
Death
14 Jul 1926 (aged 7 days)
Burial
Reidsville, Rockingham County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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This event of the birth of triplets for Roy Green Shown and Elizabeth Chapmon Shown although a tragic event was something that created such a tremendous love for the rest of their children who did survive. These little fellows should never be forgotten...we will see them again...one day!

NC Birth-Death Index
Father Roy Green Shown with triplets 2-M, 1-F (page 890,891,892 referenced, but not available)

NC, Death Certificates (listed as premature births)
Infant Son of Roy Shown, 7 Jul 1926, burial 8 Jul 1926 Salem Church Cemetery, Undertaker, Burton-Chance-Walker Co.
Infant of Roy Shown, 14 Jul 1926, burial 15 Jul 1926 Salem Church Cemetery, Undertaker, Burton-Chance-Walker Co.
Edna Earl Shown, 7 Jul 1926, burial 19 Jul 1926 Salem Church Cemetery, Undertaker, Burton-Chance-Walker Co.

22 July 1926 article in the Winston-Salem Journal, pg 8

Edna Earl
Reidsville, N.C. July 21--Edna Earle. the 14 day daughter of Mr. and Mrs Roy Shown died at her home on Wentworth Street extension Monday morning at 7 o'clock. Burial will be at the Old Salem Church this afternoon at 4 o'clock. She was one of the triplets recently born to Mr. and Mrs. Shown--the other two preceding her a few days.
This event of the birth of triplets for Roy Green Shown and Elizabeth Chapmon Shown although a tragic event was something that created such a tremendous love for the rest of their children who did survive. These little fellows should never be forgotten...we will see them again...one day!

NC Birth-Death Index
Father Roy Green Shown with triplets 2-M, 1-F (page 890,891,892 referenced, but not available)

NC, Death Certificates (listed as premature births)
Infant Son of Roy Shown, 7 Jul 1926, burial 8 Jul 1926 Salem Church Cemetery, Undertaker, Burton-Chance-Walker Co.
Infant of Roy Shown, 14 Jul 1926, burial 15 Jul 1926 Salem Church Cemetery, Undertaker, Burton-Chance-Walker Co.
Edna Earl Shown, 7 Jul 1926, burial 19 Jul 1926 Salem Church Cemetery, Undertaker, Burton-Chance-Walker Co.

22 July 1926 article in the Winston-Salem Journal, pg 8

Edna Earl
Reidsville, N.C. July 21--Edna Earle. the 14 day daughter of Mr. and Mrs Roy Shown died at her home on Wentworth Street extension Monday morning at 7 o'clock. Burial will be at the Old Salem Church this afternoon at 4 o'clock. She was one of the triplets recently born to Mr. and Mrs. Shown--the other two preceding her a few days.