DOTY, Alva

Date of birth:  12 Jul 1897 (calculated from age at death)
Date of death: 22 Sep 1897 – White River Township, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 8, 1897,
Volume XXXVIII Number 13, page 1b column 6

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OBITUARY.

Little Alva, son of J. and M. Doty, died at their home near Mt. Pleasant church, age 2 months and 10 days. He was stricken down with that dreadful disease common to little children—cholera infantum and thrash. The re­mains were interred in the Mt. Pleasant cemetery, to await the resurrection morn.

Only an empty cradle
Only a heart forlorn–

Sight in mournful measures
The flight of her stolen treasurers,

Dead in his childhood morn
. Dark is the night and drear,

Ne’er will the sounding rafter
Ring with his childish cheer.

A form in the twilight kneeling
Down by the empty nest,

A mother’s heart strings throbbing–
In broken whispers sobbing:
“Dear Lord, thou knows best.

Oh, faith of the grieving mother
Oh, hope that is born in love–

Oh, trust sublime, that can bide the time
When all shall meet above.

E. J. D.    

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Link to Alva Doty’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 56, referencing Book H-18, page 29, records that Doty (no first name), a three-month-old white male, died 22 Sep 1897 in White River Township.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson