{"id":1717,"date":"2024-11-08T13:07:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T19:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2025-08-22T19:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:37:50","slug":"willis-america-aleen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/willis-america-aleen\/","title":{"rendered":"Willis, America Aleen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tDate of Death:  11 Mar 1857<br \/>\n\t\tSubject: America Aleen Willis<br \/>\n\t\tSource: <em>North West Democrat, <\/em>Saturday, March 14, 1857, p. 3\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDied&#8211; In this city, on the 11th inst., Aleen, infant daughter of John G. and Matilda<br \/>\n\tH. Willis.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;<em>Weep not for those<br \/>\n\tWho sink within the arms of death,<br \/>\n\tEre yet the chilling wintry breath<br \/>\n\tOf sorrow o&#8217;er them blows;<br \/>\n\tBut weep for them who here remain,<br \/>\n\tThe mournful heritage of pain,<br \/>\n\tCondemn&#8217;d to see each bright joy fade<br \/>\n\tAnd mark grief&#8217;s melancholy shade<br \/>\n\tFlung o&#8217;er Hope&#8217;s fairest rose.<\/em>&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Source: <em>North West Democrat, <\/em>Saturday, March 21, 1857, p. 3 <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDied&#8211; Of inflamation [sic] of the brain in this City, on Wednesday the 11th inst.,<br \/>\n\tAmerica A., daughter of John G. and Matilda H. Willis&#8211; aged 2 years, 3 months and<br \/>\n\t11 days.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;<em>She was Father&#8217;s doating pet,<br \/>\n\tA Mother&#8217;s anxious care,<br \/>\n\tIt hardly seems she&#8217;s left them yet,<br \/>\n\tShe was so young in years,<br \/>\n\tBut still their fondest hopes must blight,<br \/>\n\tAnd soon their sorrows come,<br \/>\n\tBut now she is an angel bright,<br \/>\n\tIn Heaven her lasting home.<\/em>&quot;<br \/>\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Death: 11 Mar 1857 Subject: America Aleen Willis Source: North West Democrat, Saturday, March 14, 1857, p. 3 Died&#8211; In this city, on the 11th inst., Aleen, infant daughter of John G. and Matilda H. Willis. &quot;Weep not for those Who sink within the arms of death, Ere yet the chilling wintry breath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558,561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-county","category-people-andrew-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}