Page "Martin Van Buren Bates" Paragraph 11

:" While we have during these years been blessed with many things, affliction again visited us in the loss of a boy, born on the 19th day of January, 1879.

He was 28 inches tall, weighed twenty-two pounds kg and was perfect in every respect.

He looked at birth like an ordinary child of six months.

With this exception our lot has been one of almost uninterrupted joy.