Pocklington, Royal, 1906-1907

POCKLINGTON, MEIERSTEIN

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/21/2014 at 08:08:22

From the Hawarden Independent, November 14, 1907:

Last of the Triplets Dead

The third one of the triplets born to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Pocklington died Monday morning [November 11] after an illness of about a week from pneumonia. He was 1 year, 9 months and 24 days old, and had been a very healthy child up to the time of his recent illness. It will be remembered that Mr. and Mrs. Pocklington lost their other two baby boys when they were only a few days old. The bereaved parents have the sympathy of all in their great loss.

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The 1900 U.S. Census shows Oliver Pocklington (25, born Jan. 1875 in Minnesota), a saloon porter, living with wife Jessie (17, born Aug. 1882 in Iowa) and widowed sister Alice L. Rose (28) in Sioux City, Iowa. The 1905 Iowa state census shows O. C. Pocklington with Jessie, Irene, Harold, and Albert Pocklington and, apparently, Mary L. Terrill, living in Hawarden, Iowa. By 1910, and thereafter, the family is living in Los Angeles, California.

Family tree information on Ancestry.com shows Oliver Christopher Pocklington (Jan. 1875, Minnesota - Feb. 1968, Los Angeles) and Jessie Meierstein (born 1883, Iowa) as the parents of six children: Irene (b. 1902), Harold (b. 1905), Leona I. (b. 1912), and Harry, Richard and Royal, all with life dates 1906-1907. A photo of Royal, possibly post-mortem, appears to be about a year old.