While searching newspapers trying to discover relevant information about Peter and Sarah Buller Dick (Sarah was Peter D and Sarah Siebert Buller’s daughter), particularly given the fact that there was at least one other Peter Dick living in Henderson at that time, I stumbled upon a brief notice in the Henderson section of the 2 January 1907 issue of the York Republican.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dick had the misfortune to lose their seven months old baby Saturday evening. We understand pneumonia and whooping cough caused its death.
The GRANDMA database, the Buller Family Record, and the Johann Siebert family book* agree that Peter and Sarah Buller Dick did lose a seven-month-old son. Both sources further agree that the child was born on 16 May 1905 and died on 29 December 1905. The newspaper account, by contrast, locates the birth and death in 1906. That is, the 2 January 1907 (a Wednesday) report states that the child had died the previous Saturday evening: 29 December 1906.
What are we to make of all this? The family records, and thus GRANDMA, are mistaken. Seven-month-old Johann S. Dick was born 16 May 1906 and died seven months later, on 29 December 1906. There is no known record of where he was buried.
I decided to post about this sad event not only to correct the record (everyone deserves to be remembered accurately) but also because it tells us that Peter and Sarah Dick were back in Henderson at least by the end of 1906.
*The full title of the Johann Siebert family book, which was compiled by Elsie H. Friesen and others, is In the Days of Our Youth: The Mennonite Heritage and Descendants of Johann and Cornelius Siebert.
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