{"id":58,"date":"2011-09-30T16:45:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T16:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2013-01-01T14:03:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T14:03:43","slug":"crosby-ansel-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/?page_id=58","title":{"rendered":"Crosby, Ansel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/anselcrosby2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-59\" title=\"anselcrosby2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/anselcrosby2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/anselcrosby2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/anselcrosby2.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Ansel Crosby<\/div>\n<p>Founders Cemetery, Marker #31<\/p>\n<p>(1839-1847)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Epitaph:\u00a0<em>And while we raise the tearful eye with mournful thoughts impressed, O may this thought, \u201cI too must die\u201d sink deep in every heart<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ansel was born about October 1839 and died 10 January 1847 at the age of eight\u2014the first of four family members to die in the year 1847. The others were his sister Elizabeth, step-brother John, and his father, Theophilus. All are buried in Founders Cemetery. The cause of their deaths is not known. Six months after Ansel\u2019s death another boy was born into the family who was also given the name Ansel. He died at the age of seven.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Through Theophilus, Ansel is a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tightlines.ca\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Mayflower descendant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, being descended from Mayflower passenger, William Brewster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">More information about Ansel, his siblings, and his parents may be found in the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/FGS\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Old Stones Family Group Sheet Index.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please leave a comment if you have information about him, particularly the cause of his death and the other family members who died in 1847.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ansel Crosby Founders Cemetery, Marker #31 (1839-1847) Epitaph:\u00a0And while we raise the tearful eye with mournful thoughts impressed, O may this thought, \u201cI too must die\u201d sink deep in every heart Ansel was born about October 1839 and died 10 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/?page_id=58\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/929"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oldstones.ca\/founders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}