Individual Details
Leonidus McWhorter
(25 Jul 1887 - 19 Dec 1887)
An excerpt from a remembrance written by his mother:
The soft curls clinging about his brow
are wearing a colder covering now,
are lying in deeper and sadder shade
than ever a little white bonnett has made.
The little blue cup, & the half worn shoes,
have each a tale of his life to tell
The earth is cold and the grave is deep
and my baby lies there fast asleep,
never to break from his dreamless rest
nor waken upon my breast
never to open his sweet blue eyes
this side of the gates of paradise
and here I kneel on my chamber floor
and tearfully look on the clothes he wore
softly kissing the little white bonnett
tenderly touching the dresses he wore
Til time and place and the drifted years
are swept aside in a storm of tears
Dec the 19th / 1888 in rememberance of my little baby Leeondus
Serena McWhorter
The soft curls clinging about his brow
are wearing a colder covering now,
are lying in deeper and sadder shade
than ever a little white bonnett has made.
The little blue cup, & the half worn shoes,
have each a tale of his life to tell
The earth is cold and the grave is deep
and my baby lies there fast asleep,
never to break from his dreamless rest
nor waken upon my breast
never to open his sweet blue eyes
this side of the gates of paradise
and here I kneel on my chamber floor
and tearfully look on the clothes he wore
softly kissing the little white bonnett
tenderly touching the dresses he wore
Til time and place and the drifted years
are swept aside in a storm of tears
Dec the 19th / 1888 in rememberance of my little baby Leeondus
Serena McWhorter
Events
| Birth | 25 Jul 1887 | Texas | |||
| Death | 19 Dec 1887 | Texas |
Families
| Father | William E. McWhorter (1844 - 1905) |
| Mother | Serena Mounts (1848 - 1916) |
| Sibling | Novia Ellen McWhorter (1869 - 1902) |
| Sibling | Thomas Mounts McWhorter (1871 - 1947) |
| Sibling | William Burton McWhorter ( - ) |
| Sibling | Joseph Samuel McWhorter (1876 - 1925) |
| Sibling | Jesse Ellis McWhorter (1878 - 1950) |
| Sibling | Sallie McWhorter (1881 - 1926) |
| Sibling | Iva Lee McWhorter (1883 - 1966) |
| Sibling | Audrey McWhorter (1885 - 1940) |
| Sibling | Mary Serena McWhorter (1890 - 1914) |