John Rolph Woolverton

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Husband John Rolph Woolverton

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           Born: 31 Jul 1837
       Baptized: 
           Died: 15 Apr 1839
         Buried:  - St. Andrew's Anglican Cemetery, Grimsby, Lincoln County, Ontario, Canada
Find A Grave ID: 76251709

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         Father: Dr. Jonathan Woolverton {FSID: L9H7-ZH8, FGID: 76251193}
         Mother: Emeline Bergman {FSID: LCP1-V5C, FGID: 76251399}

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General Notes: Husband - John Rolph Woolverton

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FTM BIRT: RIN MH:IF14427

From David Macdonald

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sebastian/pafg09.htm

From diary of Jonathan Woolverton:

"On the evening of the 31st of July, 1837, at about 10 O'Clock a helpless little visitor was
committed to our care--he has continued up to this date growing a fine stout healthy boy.

October 3rd. At the age of 6 weeks he laughed out, but long before this he cryed out.
He can bear his weight upon his feet. Nov. 20. He begins to grasp objects presented to his
view.

September 20, 1838. I find it rather tedious, and perhaps unprofitable to trace with much
accuracy the development of [my son's] mental faculties or the trivial incidents of his life.
I will however just say for his future information, that he has already grown quite an unruly
boy. So much so that he gives his mother much trouble, which I hope if his life is spared,
he will endeavour in some measure to compensate, by kindness and affection. During the
last winter he was troubled with inflammation and abscess under his ear the scars of which
he will always carry. He walked at the age of 13 months and was weaned at 14 months....

June 29, 1839. It is now my painful task to record the death of a dear son. We traced
with Parental affection the growth and observed with pleasure the successive expansion of
his young mind and we thought it something more than ordinary. During his waking hours
he was constantly in exercise so much so as to be remarked by all who knew him. His
perceptive faculties seemed to be largely developed & consequently his sensibilities were
very acute, and his memory retentive; his affection for his Parents was strong and like a
vine which clings around the stock which supports it so was he with his sweet embraces
twining around our hearts. But Alas! He was doomed not long to bloom in this lower
world.... He died on the morning of the 15th of April 1839, aged 20 1/2 months. He was
interred on the succeeding day. Sermon by Elder S. Griswold-2 Cor. 4 C. 17 Verse-'For
our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and
eternal weight of Glory'. About six weeks before his death he was seized with scarlitina
anginosa; he passed through the disease very well and was in a fair way for recovery
apparently but the disease was of an insidious character, during the latter part of the night
for several succeeding nights he would be attacked with threatening symtoms of Croup,
as rough and difficult breathing attended with hoarseness and coughs, these symtoms were
unfortunately too much overlooked, thinking they might in a short time spontaneously
give way, but Alas! in this I was sadly mistaken (from this let me learn not to employ half
measures in affection of the air passage.) He was attacked suddenly on the evening of the
28th of March with croup during my absence from home, Dr. Goodman kindly visited him;
the most alarming symtoms a suffocation and its attendant horrors passed off after a few
hours. Yet still distress of the most unremitting nature seemed to fasten upon him, his
countenance was anxious, his breathing hurried and of the most oppressive nature, it
resembled more than anything the breathing [of] a person who was supporting a very heavy
burden upon his breast-if raised from the horizontal to the upright position, he expressed
great uneasiness, being in danger of suffocation. The bowels were much vitiated in the
character of their secretions and much tumified, the head and stomach were considerably
affected, he would frequently put his fingers into his mouth, trying to direct attention to the
throat as the seat of his uneasiness, his skin was parched and dry all over his body; there
was scarcely any appearance of moisture upon any part of the surface during the whole
course of the disease. The pulse was oppressed and frequent, sometimes almost imperceptible.
Finding no internal remedies to avail in affording relief, I applied a blister to the chest and
afterwards to the throat, they appeared for a time to act most beneficially the oppression in
breathing being relieved, the pulse rising, becoming softer and fuller, & hope the torch of
life again lit up our countenances with joy. But sorrow again too quickly veiled them, again
did the smothered embers of disease show themselves and burst out into an uncontrollable
flame. He pined away and gradually sunk sweetly in arms of death, he bore the disease with
unexampled patience, severe as it was, and although so young he seemed to have the submission
of riper years. On the morning above mentioned after a few short and irregular inspirations he died. I was carrying him in my arms, he seemed much exhausted, he expressed
by signs a desire to lie down, in the course of a few moments he was no more. What most
astonished me was that the pulse at this time seemed better if anything than before and it continued
to beat even after the respiration had ceased. Although the disease passed for
Bronchitis yet in reflecting upon the symtoms, progress and the termination of the disease,
I cannot but think there most probably existed an abscess in the Larynx or upper portion
of the Trachea. My reasons for thinking so are the obstinacy and long continuance of the
inflammation about the throat, the intellect being clear through the whole disease which is
seldom the case when inflanunation extends to the extreme parts of the lungs, the circulation
florid in the superficial parts, and more than all the pulsation of the artery at the wrist being
distinct even after respiration had ceased. I trust it is my desire to acquiesce in the will of
Providence, knowing that the Great Judge of all the Earth will do right. Yet I cannot but
regret that I did not make early and more efficient counter applications to the throat-make
more efficient and powerful means to restore the circulation to the surface and promote a
constant Diaphoritic state of the cuticular capillaries; but most of all I wish I had performed
the operation of Tracheotomy as apparently there might have been some chance of prolonging
life by the introduction of air-but as the exact nature and location of the disease
were not ascertained by post mortem examination, nor the effects of the operation by actual
experiment, all my conjectures can pass only for probable theorising.
How mysterious are the dealings of Providence. He gave us a son in His own good time.
He thought proper to take hirn from us, and who so good a right to take as He who
gave.... "

from http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=76251709

"Birth: Jul. 31, 1837
Death: Apr. 15, 1839


Family links:
Parents:
Jonathan Woolverton (1811 - 1883)
Emeline Bergmann Woolverton (1816 - 1874)

Sibling:
John Rolph Woolverton (1837 - 1839)
Edgar Judson Woolverton (1841 - 1925)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Saint Andrew's Anglican Church Cemetery
Grimsby
Niagara Regional Municipality
Ontario, Canada

Created by: Loraine Ertelt
Record added: Sep 09, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 76251709"

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