Cornelius Alden JEUDEVINE, son of Hon.Alden Edson and Malvina Maria JEUDEVINE was born on 26 June 1961 in Hardwick, VT, where he died on 29 March 1878, aged 16 years and 9 months. "Nealy" as he was called, started school at age 5. His advance was rapid in the solid branches and acquired interest in the ornamental as well as the useful, excelling in bookkeeping and penmanship.  His father is quoted as saying "Nealy was better qualified toadminister my estate than any other person." 

         Nearly six feet in height, of slender build, black eyes and hair, his complexion fresh and ruddy, he held promise of a well developed physical as well as mental state. (The engraving represents him at the age of eleven years, seven months, and twenty-one days.) 

         March 23, 1878, Saturday, "Nealy" apparently in robust health went up to the mountain sugar orchard of his father, and, while there, took cold which culminated in a malignant erysipelas. On Wednesday the disease assumed so grave an aspect that the celebrated Dr.S.W. Thayer of Burlington was summoned, and came on a special train, but human skill was unavailing and after terrible suffering he died Friday morning. [29 March 1878] 

[There is a detailed account of his death, tributes paid to him and the mourning of the village available.]
 

[Engraving by B. B. Hall’s Sons, New York]
Source: Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties, VT; 1764-1887, by Hamilton Child, May, 1887, page 218.

Additional information available from Tom Dunn who provided this photo and biographical sketch.