Polan Rivers
Title
Polan Rivers
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Section
Lot
Grave
00
First Name
Last Name
Relationship
Son of A.J. Rivers (B-021-11) & Mary L. Rivers (B-021-10)
Birth Date
1860
Birth: Year
Death Date
08/19/1861
Death: Month
08
Death: Day
19
Death: Year
Age at Death
1 yr. 1 mo. 15 da.
Gender
Number of Persons on Marker
Composition
Condition
Shape
State
Carving
Hand with pointing finger toward heaven
Legibility
Good
Dimension: Height
20 inches
Dimension: Width
8 inches
Base Dimensions
5 x 11 inches
Source of Information
Information taken from Westwood Printout and grave marker, if available; check the original burial register at city hall for additional data
Comments
Last month October 2011, the owners of a house on East Lorain Street brought to the Heritage Center a small tombstone that had been found in a well on the property. The marker was that of a child, Polan Rivers, who had died at 1 year of age in August 1861.
Mary Louise (D'Anglas) and Augustus Josiah Rivers were married in 1849 in Oberlin and later resided at that Lorain Street address from 1883-1943. In 1861, when little Polan died, Oberlin's original cemetery at Morgan and Professor Streets was deemed "full" and ground was being cleared for the new Westwood Cemetery. It is unclear where the child actually was buried and why this tombstone was brought to the Lorain Street address later. However, evidence that Polan is one of three children lost by A.J. Rivers and his wife is sufficiently convincing to merit placing this stone in the D'Anglas Heirs family plot at Westwood -- Oberlin Heritage Center E-Gazette -- November 2011
Mary Louise (D'Anglas) and Augustus Josiah Rivers were married in 1849 in Oberlin and later resided at that Lorain Street address from 1883-1943. In 1861, when little Polan died, Oberlin's original cemetery at Morgan and Professor Streets was deemed "full" and ground was being cleared for the new Westwood Cemetery. It is unclear where the child actually was buried and why this tombstone was brought to the Lorain Street address later. However, evidence that Polan is one of three children lost by A.J. Rivers and his wife is sufficiently convincing to merit placing this stone in the D'Anglas Heirs family plot at Westwood -- Oberlin Heritage Center E-Gazette -- November 2011
Lot Owner
D'Anglas Heirs
Date Transcribed
10/22/2012
Default Latitude
41.28402713
Default Longitude
-82.23566214
Default Zoom Level
20
Collection
Citation
“Polan Rivers,” Westwood Database, accessed May 7, 2024, https://www.oberlinwestwood.org/omeka/items/show/61574.