". . .when Cecilia lay confined with one of the children, my little girl Daisy took croup. She was attended by Dr. Ray of the Satellite but but died. I do not know of croup then as now - in fact it was for the most part a very infrequent disease here. Daisy was a little blue-eyed flaxen-haired, fair child - full of pleasant tricks, and always hid herself behind the door in order to frighten me when she heard me coming in. Poor little thing she was a pet and methinks I see her now. We buried the poor little thing in the garden and I made an oval of white daisies with a cross in the center over the grave. The holly stands there now - my first-born was buried there also." John Helmcken (BCARS:ADD.MSS.505.V.12)

Catherine Amelia Helmcken James Helmcken

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