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Tour of Venango County Cemetery Children's Graves


Cheribum - Angels sent to guard the way of the tree of life is often seen on monuments for children.


Location: Franklin Cemetery Section E – Lot 12 - Sibley Lot


Inscription: Baby Heathcote


Obituary: Oil City Semi-Weekly Derrick
September 29, 1903 p. 4 col. 5
Waldo Heathcote, 4 month old son of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Heathcote
died this morning at home in Franklin from acute indigestion.
Note: William F. Heathcote married Josephine Sibley, the daughter of Senator Joseph C. Sibley.


Bedstead - The small bedstead monument for these young children may indicate a denial of death –
the child is not dead, but at rest.
The broken stem of the rose usually indicates that a young & innocent life was cut short.


Location: Franklin Cemetery – Section B
Inscription:
front of head of bed: Nettie Jane
Back of head of bed: Katie Love, Amelia, Asenath


Possibly a name on foot of bed – illegible
This is a monument for the children of Dr. Albert G. & Eliza Phipps Egbert


Bedstead


Location: Franklin Cemetery – Section E


Inscription: Illegible except for foot end of bedstead which reads “Bettie”


Franklin Cemetery records indicate that this is the gravesite of Bettie Hardcastle,
1 year and 11 months old who died Sept. 9, 1886.


Nearby in an unmarked grave is that of Mrs. John Hardcastle who died May 4, 1898.
The Franklin News – Herald on Jan. 29, 1931, carried an article which mentioned the remembrances of John Hardcastle. Mr. Hardcastle had lived in the Franklin area for many years and relocated in Los Angeles about 1910. John Hardcastle remembered that when just a 15 year old newsboy in Washington, D.C., he was present at the Ford Theatre the night that President Lincoln was assassinated.

Common in the 19th century is the use of the lamb as a symbol of innocence.
The lamb would be combined with other symbols for further interpretation.

Lamb & Bear


Location: St. Patricks Cemetery, Franklin, PA


Inscription: Raynolo S. Tolone ~ 1915 – 1917


Lamb
Location: Millcreek Cemetery, Frenchcreek Township


Inscription:


Harvy
Son of
J. & M.J. Haylett
Died Dec. 30, 1873
Aged 4 yr & 2da


James and Mary Jane Russum Haylett were pioneers in this area
and lived near the Venango / Mercer County line on the Georgetown Road.


Shoes with Socks draped over marker


Location: Grove Hill Cemetery – Oil City


Inscription: George Garr (Carr)


Tree with Dead Dove


The severed branches of this tree stump indicate the end of life.
The dead dove at the base of the stump represents a prematurely shortened life.


Location: Franklin Cemetery Section B, Lot 1


Inscription:
CARL
SON OF
E.G. & M.B. CRAWFORD
DIED Nov. 26, 1874
8 months & 18 days


Obituary:
Venango Spectator - December 3, 1874
Carl B. Crawford died in Franklin, Pa., on Thursday, November 26, 1874,
son of E.G. and Maria Crawford. Aged 8 months and 18 days.


Note: Maria (Baum) Crawford died September 9, 1876, aged 27 years and Eben G. Crawford, son of Robert J. & Margaret Crawford, died in June of 1897. E.G. Crawford married Julia McLaughlin in 1882 and they had 3 sons: Eben G., Lloyd and Clan. Julia Crawford died December 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Contributor - Penny Haylett Minnick

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