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Friday March 29th 2024

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Toddler Toted Toys to Top Treasure Trove –1938

Caretaker Albert Nelson’s Journals–1927-53–Tell Stories

220th in a Series from Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery

By SUE HUNTER WEIR

Albert Nelson
Some of Albert Nelson’s workdays were more interesting than others. Nelson, the Cemetery’s Caretaker from 1927 until his death in 1953, sent a monthly report to his supervisor detailing his work and the number of hours that each task took. He often included a brief account, usually no more than a sentence or two, of unusual happenings in the Cemetery. In his report for April 1938, he wrote “Wed., April 20th, played nurse to a lost baby boy at the Cemetery for two hours until the mother and police called for him at the same time.” That baby boy was two-year-old James Horace Spillane.

James Horace Spillane
James was the youngest of Edward and Helen Spillane’s four children. The family lived just a few blocks from the Cemetery at 1839 East 28th Street. James, who had just turned two on February 10th, somehow managed to cross Cedar Avenue by himself and wander into the Cemetery. Apparently, he planned to stay a while since he brought a toy truck and a toy car with him. If James’ mother was frantic when she noticed that her son was missing, James clearly was not.… Read the rest “Toddler Toted Toys to Top Treasure Trove –1938”

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