The next few posts will feature Grandma and Grandpa Federer's children.
Their first born son was Ernest Cecil Federer.
I mentioned in a previous post that little Ernest died of "crib death." It is called SIDS now (sudden infant death syndrome—an unexplained death of a normally healthy infant less than one year old.
I am sure that in time Grandma was blessed with peace and comfort because of her faith.
I am sure that in time Grandma was blessed with peace and comfort because of her faith.
Joseph Fielding Smith’s Doctrines of Salvation, in the section on exaltation teaches that: “Children who die in childhood will not be deprived of any blessing. When they grow, after the resurrection, to the full maturity of the spirit, they will be entitled to all the blessings which they would have been entitled to had they been privileged to tarry here and receive them. The Lord has arranged for that, so that justice will be given to every soul.”
Grandma holding Ernest
September 7, 1916 ~ November 18, 1916
The little crib is empty now
The little clothes laid by
September 7, 1916 ~ November 18, 1916
The little crib is empty now
The little clothes laid by
A mother's hope, a father's joy
In deaths cold arm doth lie
Go little pilgrim, to thy home
On yonder blissful shore.
We miss thee here, but soon we'll come
Where thou hast gone before.
Where thou hast gone before.
