DIED  John Griffin Carlisle    

On Wednesday evening, January 6, at half-past 8 o'clock, of dropsy of brain, 
at the residence of his grandfather, W. Sayers, Kenton County, Ky., John 
Griffin, infant son of R. M. Carlisle of Covington, Ky., aged 8 months and 17 
days.
            Oh why didst thou leave us dear one?
            Our hearts in their grief fain would ask.
            And in soft music notes comes the answer
            "Weep not, I am happier than ye,
            Gone to be with my mother in heaven."

        (The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Monday, January 11, 1864, pg. 2)

Note:  John's mother was Elizabeth Sayers Carlisle born 1841, the daughter 
and eldest child of William Sayers and Jemima Theobald.  Elizabeth died of 
childbirth complications hence the reference to his "mother in heaven."  His 
father, Robert M. Carlisle, was an attorney and the brother of John Griffin 
Carlisle who was Lt. Governor of KY, Speaker of the House of Representatives 
and Secretary of the Treasury under Grover Cleveland.  Robert born in 1836 
and died of Consumption in 1867.  This tragic little family is buried in the 
Sayers plot in Highland Cemetery.