Jacob Steinhoff and daughter's cemetery stones at Norfolk Genealogy

Re. -- Potts Cemetery photos and transcriptions

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"[Unreadable] died Oct. 28, 1888 aged 25 yrs. | Celista Potts died Sept. 1888"
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Photographed and transcribed Aug 2009 by Sandra Boughner at Potts Cemetery.
Above photo is side B of this stone; Esther on other side.
Other transcripts read: "Edith E. Potts died Oct. 28, 1838 aged 25 yrs 5 mo's 4 d's. |
Celista A. Potts died Sept. 4, 1858, aged 1 yr."
Our take: Edith E. Potts died in 1888 and Celista A. Potts died Sep. 4, 1855

"Esther wife of Jeremiah Potts died Jan. 28, 1884, 60 yrs."
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Photographed and transcribed Aug 2009 by Sandra Boughner at Potts Cemetery.
Above photo is side A of this stone; Celista on other side.
Other transcripts and her newspaper death announcement say Esther died 10 years later, on Jan. 28, 1894.

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