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Alverus Byron Post Sr

18 Dec 1847 – 26 Oct 1881

Birth18 Dec 1847
Death26 Oct 1881
CemeteryLaclede Cemetery
Laclede , Linn County , Missouri , USA
Added bypostkrispykritters on 15 Nov 2011
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75714478

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GENEALOGICAL FACTS PARENTS: Henry B. Post [1811-1895] Eliza (Shafer) Post [1821-aft 1900] SIBLINGS: Lucius H. Post, Polaski Walter Post, and Sarah E. Post SPOUSE: Angeline (Tufts) Post Quillen [1854-abt 1937] (m. January 12, 1871 in Cunningham, Chariton, Missouri at the home of the bride.) CHILDREN: Jerome E. Post, Jesse Post, Walter B. Post, William Luther Post (M.D./Rev.), and Alverus Byron Post, Jr. (II) PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS: unknown at this time MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS: Jonas Shafer Hannah (Roosa) Shafer _________________________ 2/14/2026 ~ The following is a Valentine's Day Poem written by Alverus Byron Post, Sr., to Angeline Tufts on February 14, 1869, when they were 22 and 15, respectively; they married two years later. The unsigned poem was discovered and transcribed by me in December 2025 (157 years later). It was fragile, torn in four pieces and protected inside a glass test tube stored in a random box of my father's belongings. ~ postkrispykritters Around the table I now will bend To write the epistle I'm about to send The fourteenth of February it seems to be A day of pleasure and a day of glee But the question now I'm about to shove Is a question of beauty and a question of love For my heart is aching to tell you the truth For I've loved you my darling ever since my youth I'm thinking my dear of those beautiful eyes What beauty and splendor far exceeds the skyes And those beautiful lips I love so to kiss For there dear is the lovers bliss And to talk of the life which I expect to see Is a joy and delight my love to me Though you may oftimes get angry and scold Yet I love you my darling for better than gold The story I've promised to tell Angeline You see is told in the proceeding lines And the mistake which you perhaps will see Excuse for a bungler is the author who ever he be February 14th 1869 in haste _________________________ *** A big thank you to Sandy Smith, contributor #47090076, for fulfilling my photo request.

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