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Curtis
Dean
Loftin

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William
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(1918 - 1979)

Alonzo
Lester
Loftin

(1876 - 1937)

William Alexander
Loftin

(1851 - 1939)

James
Franklin
Loftin

(1827 - 1864)

Thomas
Loftin

(1798 - 185?)

James
Loftin

(1768 - 1836)

John
Loftin

(1740 - 1793)

Cornelius
Loftin III

(1714 - 1785)

Cornelius
Loftin II

(1675 - 1735)

Cornelius
Loftin I

(1648 - 1735)

Leonard
"Laughton"
Loftin

(1610 - 1678)
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"Infant Son" Loftin

     
 

 

Born: 06 Jun 1914, Catawba, Catawba County, NC
Died:  13 Jun 1914, Catawba, Catawba County, NC

 
Alonzo Lester Loftin and Ida Lillian Setzer had a second set of twins with the birth of a girl and boy born on 06 Jun 1914 in Catawba, Catawba County, NC.  The girl was named Daisy Pearl Loftin but it seems as if the boy was never named. 
 
The only official records that have been found on this "Infant Son" are his tombstone and his Death Certificate.
 
I have found several Ancestry.com trees that list this "twin" child of Alonzo Lester Loftin and Ida Lillian Setzer Loftin as "Daniel P. Loftin" but I don't believe that the child was ever actually named and was probably just referred to as "the baby". His grave marker at Center Methodist Church in Catawba County, NC lists his name as "Infant Son" Loftin and both his birth and death dates as "June 6, 1914".
 

Grave Marker at Center Methodist Church, Catawba County, NC

 
 
In November 2014, a Death Certificate was discovered for this child and his name is listed as "Infant". He died 7 days after he was born - meaning that he died on 13 Jun 1914. No cause for death was listed. The Death Certificate incorrectly listed his sex as a "girl" and his place of burial as "Friendship" Church.  We know he was buried at Center Methodist - along with the other children that died in infancy.
 

Death Certificate for "Infant" Loftin born 06 Jun 1914

 
 
According to Deannie Herman Massagee Hilton (the daughter of Daisy Pearl Loftin Herman and twin of this "Infant" boy), she said that her mother told her the child was a "boy" but that she had never mentioned a name for the boy.
 
 
The Census collector for the 1920 Catawba County Census incorrectly spelled Alonzo & Ida Loftin's daughter Daisy Pearl's name as "Dassie P." (See Below). Unfortunately when the data from this Census was transcribed it was written as "Danie P." Loftin - and several genealogists assumed the child's name was Daniel P. Loftin. Since this "Infant Son" was not living at the time of the 1920 Census we know that the name is not referring to him, but instead is referring to Daisy Pearl.
 
 
1920 Catawba County Census

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

SOURCES

 
Thanks to Melody Myrick Herring for sharing the Death Certificate for "Infant" Son Loftin. 
You can contact Melody at
mherring29@hotmail.com
 
Thanks to Deannie Herman Massagee Hilton for information on her mother's twin brother
 
 
 
 

If you have additional information about the Loftin Family of Catawba County, NC, please contact me.