They Buried the Counting Rhyme - Why the Sixth Name Was Silent
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They Buried the Counting Rhyme - Why the Sixth Name Was Silent
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The copper tube pulled from Crestline Road held a March 14, 1891 firewood receipt and, on its reverse, a counting rhyme that lists six named deaths in Aldermere Parish-with the sixth verse the only one people had always refused to say aloud. Why was a church receipt signed by Deacon H. Ames used as the backing for a children's rhyme that records specific ages, garments, and a man who “saw the door,” then sealed and buried below the frost line for decades?
In this episode, we trace how a retired postal worker, his grandmother’s truncated song, and a county surveyor’s probe converge on a single unexplained burial: the copper pipe that reunited oral variants of One for the Cold Ground with parish records. What does the missing reason behind William Fenn’s “accident” and the omitted sixth verse reveal about what the community chose to forget?
Person: Rebecca Price
Person: Ralph Baker
Date: March 14, 1891
Date: March 28, 1871
Location: Crestline Road
- The copper pipe was 14 inches long and buried 18 inches below grade.
- The receipt inside was dated March 14, 1891 and signed by Deacon H. Ames.
- Baker transcribed St. Clement's registers covering nearly 80 years of parish life.
- The rhyme named six individuals and recorded their ages: Caleb Morse (37), Nora Morse (34), Paul Morse (6), Agnes Stout (61), Daniel Pryce (28), William Fenn (44).
- Parish burial records attribute five deaths to fever and record William Fenn’s death on March 28, 1871 as “accident.”
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