Table Rock Cemetery

Deaths of Children

Deaths of Young Adults

children's graves at
​the table rock cemetery

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John Albin - 1886 - 1909 - Southwest Quarter

Little sisters -- Elva Aylor, 1900 - 1908, and Katie Aylor, 1902 - 1903

The top of the stone of Elva and Katie Aylor. You can barely make out the family name.

Little Hattie Aylor - Her dates of birth and death are unknown -- She is buried with other Aylor babies in the northwest quarter

Little Daisy Aylor -- her dates of birth and death are also unknown. She, too, is buried with her sisters. These little Aylor stones are all together.

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Ruth Binder - 1916-1917 - Baby daughter of Charles & Violet Binder

Wanda Bivens - 1901-1903 - Buried with her father

Lillian Blacklaw 1875 - 1876 Northeast Quarter

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Baby Bowen - 1908-1908

Ricky Lee Bowen - 1953-1954

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Merre B. Brothers - 1905-1906

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1898 - archie carl
​age 9

Table Rock Argus, Aug. 18, 1898.
​The little nine year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Carl, who live four or five miles, south of town, was injured one week ago last Friday while playing with a calf at the farm of Titus Davis. The little fellow was trying to ride the calf and fell off, injuring one of his legs, but it was not thought to be serious until Thursday of last week, when there was evidence of blood poisoning and he grew rapidly worse until Saturday afternoon, when he died about 6 o'clock. The funeral services were held at the home on Monday, conducted by Rev. Williams of Pawnee, and the remains were buried in the Table Rock cemetery. The sympathy of the entire neighborhood is extended to the afflicted parents.

NOTE: The date of the article about his death and the date on the stone do not match.  Both were clear. The stone may have been put up later, and the date on the stone is wrong. It happens. 

Frankie Chaney -- Died in 1879 at the age of 3 -- This stone was broken off in the Fall of 1915. The grass under the stone is still green.

A clean break. This stone was not weakened. There was no other vandalism in the cemetery. This is probably the result of a mower hitting it.

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Ralph Cooper, son of Laura - 12/23/1897 - 1/29/1898

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1870 & 1872 - william & emma dare
a four-year-old & an infant
children of george & lucella bloom dare

Brother and sister William and Emma Dare. William, 1866-1870 - Emma, Nov. 1871 -April 1872

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1876, lulu fellers
age 17
daughter of william & susanna fellers

1883 - mary a. fellers
age 17
daughter of a & [P?] fellers

Daughter of A & P Fellers

1888 - elsie fellers
infant
daughter of lewellyn & anna belle fellers

Elsie Fellers, daughter of Lewellyn and Anna - 12/6/1888-12/22/1888

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1873 - walten fellers
age 6 months
son of andrew & mary fellers

wanda fellers
age 15
only daughter of willis & anna fellers

1891 - albert ferguson
infant son of albert & alice parker ferguson, buried with parents & maternal grandparents

July 6, 1891 Nebraska State Journal

1938 - eugene fesenbeck
infant son of elmer & orena rubink fesenbenk (his rubinkgrandparents are buried in the cemetery; the parents were only visiting when he was born.

TABLE ROCK ARGUS, Thur., Dec. 22, 1938.

INFANT PASSES AWAY- The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Fesenbek, passed away very suddenly Monday morning, at the Martin Oellerich home. The baby was born at the Oellerich home the latter part of November and Mrs. Fesenbek and family had planned to join her husband in their home in Mississippi this week. Mrs. Fesenbek and Mrs. Oellerich are sisters.

NOTE: In the Oct. 20, 1938 obituary of Eugene's grandmother Mary Rubink, it notes that the Elmer Fesenbek family lived at Athens, Wisconsin.

1892 - everett fisher
infant son of ralph & julia carlock fisher

1869 - sadie fox
age 8
daughter of civil war widow
​dr. mary b. fox; sadie's father died at andersonville prison

1907 - albert frank 
age 2
​son of charles h. & Jessie frank; charles had died only 8 days before, at age 39

1955 - kenneth frank
infant
son of charles w. & harriet bridgmon frank

1904 - flora freeman
infant
daughter of harry & lizzy freeman; buried on the right; at the left is the grave of her sister irene, who died in 1918; flora would have been a great aunt of rob, rich, & tom freeman

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1859 - sabrina, age 1  
1862 - jennie, an infant
1872  - john, age 2
1872 -  david, an infant
CHILDREN OF JOSEPH & LYDIA GRIFFING; they had three children who lived to old age: clara griffing marble, nellie griffing boyd, and frank griffing

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lydia jones
age 7 -- diptheria

Lydia was the daughter of John and  Ellen Jones, who were both born in Wales. They settled first in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, Ellen first as a child and then John as a young man.  John came to Table Rock in 1858 to make a home for her then brought her here in 1860. They were married by C. W. Giddings, the Methodist minister who led the pioneers of the Nebraska Settlement Company here from 1856-1858.  

Lydia is buried in the Table Rock Cemetery.

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ralph mcgee
age 11
son of Charles & Vera McGee

The parents of young Ralph were Charles A. and Vira McGee. It appears that they came from Michigan, where they were on census records before and after Ralph's death. Whether they moved here and later returned or were only visiting here is unknown. In the 1900 census, Vira was listing as having had one child, but none living, so it appears likely that he was an only child. One family tree on Ancestry listed Ralph, with a date of birth but no death. No local or more definitive sources of information have been found.

1905 - dorothy mckelvie
daughter of flossie & sam mckelvie. flossie was the daughtef of iantha fellers, step daughter of 1st wave pioneer william fellers

1879 - ida murphy
age 7

Ida Murphy, age 7. She was the daughter of C. H. & L. Murphy. C. H. was a station agent who also was proprietor of the grand Hotel Murphy for many years (next to the depot).

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1883 - orem pepoon
infant

NORTH TABLE ROCK NEWS.

In the midst of life we are in death.
Little Oren (sic), infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Pepoon passed from earth with all its cares and trials, on Monday Feb. 5th, a bright and beautiful little bud of promise, he blooms beneath fairer, softer skies than ours, where storms never come.

He seemed in perfect health till the day before his death, when he manifested symptoms of a cold, which soon settled upon his lungs and proved fatal in a few hours.

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Circa 1870s - enos shaw
infant

This infant likely died in the 1870s.  He was a son of John Wesley & Maria Shaw, married in 1867 and came to Table Rock very soon after.  Their two children who survived were born in the early 1870s.   His paternal grandfather's name was Eneas Shaw.

CIRCA 1870S - WESLEY SHAW
INFANT

John Wesley was Enos's brother, same comments apply.