Annell Owen Hansen

What I remember about Owen. The tiny grave.

-By Freeman Johnson

Annell Owen Hansen, 1903 - 1903. Born 17 March 1903 and died October 31 1903. He was Omer’s twin brother. I don’t know if they were identical or paternal twins. I remember mother saying the was born with spina bifida and that is why he died. The thing I’ll always remember the tiny grave next to Grandfather Hansen in the Richfield cemetery, it always got flowers on memorial day. I always thought how it must have been difficult for my Grandmother to loose such a little one, though as I got older I came to understand that it would be difficult at any age.

[Note from Freeman's daughter, Kristen: Other sources say Owen died of spinal meningitis, and that both babies had been sick, but only Owen died.]