SOPHIE WILHELMINE FLEMMER
1856 – 1862
Sophie
was the ninth and last child born to Christian August and Betty Flemmer, and the
second born in Cradock. She arrived on the
13th December 1856 and was baptized at Cradock on the 25th January 1857.
I
have a record that she ‘died young’ and found her death recorded on a gravestone
at the Cradock Municipal Cemetery.
Sophie’s name is shown on the memorial stone of two of her cousins Betty Christiane
and Dagmar Naested who had died young as infants.
Sophie
died on the 20th July 1862 aged five, almost certainly in one of the
regular epidemics of typhoid or similar diseases that carried off so many children
in frontier towns in this time.
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