Lourinda (Lorinda/Laurinda) C. Moss is buried in the same cemetery as her father and mother, Samuel and Sarah (Alexander) Moss but in a different section west of the church.
Her grave is marked by a damaged and reset stone that reads: "Our little Lourinda C. Moss, dau of S. & S. Moss, Died September 27, 1869, Aged 8y. 11m. 23d." An image of a bunny is in the center of a medallion design on the marker. The base for the headstone bears the now partially obscured inscription: "A little flower of love, That blossomed but to die, Transplanted now above, To bloom with God on high."
A transcription of her marker appears in the book, "Cemeteries of Mercer County, Missouri: A tabulation of gravestone inscriptions," volume 2, compiled by the Mercer County (Missouri) Historical Society, published by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Cornelia Beekman Chapter (NW Missouri), Princeton, MO, 1968, on page 23.
A record of Lourinda's death appears on the 1870 U.S. Census Federal Mortality Schedule (schedule 2), for Mercer County, Missouri, Madison township, p. 1, line 10, family 230, which states: "Lorinda Moss, age 8, born Indiana, month died: September, disease or cause of death: Remitting Fever." -- Family 230 corresponds to the Samuel Moss family on the main 1870 U.S. Census population schedule for Madison township, (Goshen City post office), Missouri, p. 34, lines 1-10.
Note: Archaic medical term: "Remitting Fever" = A rise in body temperature above normal usually as a natural response to infection; Pyrexia.
Her grave is marked by a damaged and reset stone that reads: "Our little Lourinda C. Moss, dau of S. & S. Moss, Died September 27, 1869, Aged 8y. 11m. 23d." An image of a bunny is in the center of a medallion design on the marker. The base for the headstone bears the now partially obscured inscription: "A little flower of love, That blossomed but to die, Transplanted now above, To bloom with God on high."
A transcription of her marker appears in the book, "Cemeteries of Mercer County, Missouri: A tabulation of gravestone inscriptions," volume 2, compiled by the Mercer County (Missouri) Historical Society, published by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Cornelia Beekman Chapter (NW Missouri), Princeton, MO, 1968, on page 23.
A record of Lourinda's death appears on the 1870 U.S. Census Federal Mortality Schedule (schedule 2), for Mercer County, Missouri, Madison township, p. 1, line 10, family 230, which states: "Lorinda Moss, age 8, born Indiana, month died: September, disease or cause of death: Remitting Fever." -- Family 230 corresponds to the Samuel Moss family on the main 1870 U.S. Census population schedule for Madison township, (Goshen City post office), Missouri, p. 34, lines 1-10.
Note: Archaic medical term: "Remitting Fever" = A rise in body temperature above normal usually as a natural response to infection; Pyrexia.
Lourinda (Lorinda/Laurinda) C. Moss is buried in the same cemetery as her father and mother, Samuel and Sarah (Alexander) Moss but in a different section west of the church.
Her grave is marked by a damaged and reset stone that reads: "Our little Lourinda C. Moss, dau of S. & S. Moss, Died September 27, 1869, Aged 8y. 11m. 23d." An image of a bunny is in the center of a medallion design on the marker. The base for the headstone bears the now partially obscured inscription: "A little flower of love, That blossomed but to die, Transplanted now above, To bloom with God on high."
A transcription of her marker appears in the book, "Cemeteries of Mercer County, Missouri: A tabulation of gravestone inscriptions," volume 2, compiled by the Mercer County (Missouri) Historical Society, published by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Cornelia Beekman Chapter (NW Missouri), Princeton, MO, 1968, on page 23.
A record of Lourinda's death appears on the 1870 U.S. Census Federal Mortality Schedule (schedule 2), for Mercer County, Missouri, Madison township, p. 1, line 10, family 230, which states: "Lorinda Moss, age 8, born Indiana, month died: September, disease or cause of death: Remitting Fever." -- Family 230 corresponds to the Samuel Moss family on the main 1870 U.S. Census population schedule for Madison township, (Goshen City post office), Missouri, p. 34, lines 1-10.
Note: Archaic medical term: "Remitting Fever" = A rise in body temperature above normal usually as a natural response to infection; Pyrexia.
Her grave is marked by a damaged and reset stone that reads: "Our little Lourinda C. Moss, dau of S. & S. Moss, Died September 27, 1869, Aged 8y. 11m. 23d." An image of a bunny is in the center of a medallion design on the marker. The base for the headstone bears the now partially obscured inscription: "A little flower of love, That blossomed but to die, Transplanted now above, To bloom with God on high."
A transcription of her marker appears in the book, "Cemeteries of Mercer County, Missouri: A tabulation of gravestone inscriptions," volume 2, compiled by the Mercer County (Missouri) Historical Society, published by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Cornelia Beekman Chapter (NW Missouri), Princeton, MO, 1968, on page 23.
A record of Lourinda's death appears on the 1870 U.S. Census Federal Mortality Schedule (schedule 2), for Mercer County, Missouri, Madison township, p. 1, line 10, family 230, which states: "Lorinda Moss, age 8, born Indiana, month died: September, disease or cause of death: Remitting Fever." -- Family 230 corresponds to the Samuel Moss family on the main 1870 U.S. Census population schedule for Madison township, (Goshen City post office), Missouri, p. 34, lines 1-10.
Note: Archaic medical term: "Remitting Fever" = A rise in body temperature above normal usually as a natural response to infection; Pyrexia.
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