Death of an Infant — Again the silent messenger of death waves his sable plumes over another household and loving hearts are bowed down with grief.  On Monday last Marshall Cook MORECOCK infant son of our townsman Mr. R.E. MORECOCK was taken away, aged ten months.  Like a tender flower he has been cut down and transplanted to bloom in perpetual beauty in the Celestial Garden above.

Source: Roanoke News, 5 October 1878. Available online at digitalnc.org.