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Note: especially by the young mother. It was the custom on farms to setaside a plot of land for family burials; a knoll or corner of aquarter of land. James McCaffree did not follow this tradition,rather, on a bleak, windy day he took his small, dead girl into hisarms and carried her to the orchard. There in a spot known only tohimself he dug a grave and buried Nora Grace. For some odd,unfathomable reason he never shared his knowledge of where the childlay. No stone or cross was ever placed over her grave. It was toldthat often in the mist of early mornings or during the long quietmoments of dusk one could see a huddled, lonely form sitting beneath atree staring across the land, searching it seemed for some clue to herbaby's grave." (Source: "Prescott: A History of the McCafree &Prescott Family" by V. P. Prescott)
In notes found in my mom's trunk, it has that Nora Grace was buried atFarragut, Iowa, which is in Fremont County. No source or date givenfor these notes.
Note: "It seemed that at the death of Nora Grace there was great grieving
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