Ide Family Cemetary
Plot
Farm Tour stop #7. Click HERE to
see map.
Agnes Hannay Smith Ide
Union County Cemetaries, showing the Ide family plot
in
Grant
Township
.
Excerpt from the Memoirs of Ellen Frances Allen Ide:
Our
children were a great joy to us. In
the summer of 1872, our little Carrie was taken ill. Our nearest doctor was at
Afton
, twelve miles distant. Calling a doctor in those days was a
different proposition, especially in the country, from what it is today. No telephone, no automobile, the
quickest way was a trip on horseback. Everything possible was done for the dear child, but she grew
worse. Kind neighbors came in to
help us. Only a few days illness,
and our dear baby was gone. A great
grief to us. A beautiful child,
fourteen months old, just beginning to talk. We laid her in a pretty spot near the
young trees which had been planted near the house, enclosing and putting up a
small monument. Later, when
Graceland
Cemetery
was laid out and improved, we bought a lot and removed the body and the
monument, which mow marks the spot in
Graceland
. In just a year from the day Carrie died,
a new little daughter came to us, whom we named Alice Gertrude, a sweet,
winning child, beloved by all, bright, pretty, with golden hair which she wore
in curls until nine years old.