20 Dec 1913 – 9 Feb 1928
Great-great-grandson of Philip Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn
Great-grandson of Louis Philip Cardon and Susette Stalé
Grandson of Emanuel Philip Cardon and Amelia Maria Merrick
Son of Jesse Leo Cardon and Francis Maude Farnsworth
Jesse Leo was born in Logan, Utah where the Jesse Leo Cardon Sr. family resettled after the family fled the Mexican Revolution. Francis and Jesse grew homesick for the Colonies, their friends and home. As soon as it became safe to return, the family traveled back to Dublan.
“Jesse Jr. was playing basketball in the old gym: he was perspiring from playing when he jumped on the running board of the car to ride home. There was a cool breeze and from this exposure Jesse took diphtheria and in two weeks he died, on February 9, 1928.” Jesse was 14 years old.
For over 81 years this son had only a simple concrete marker written with a nail in the wet concrete to mark his grave. The Jesse Leo Cardon family raised the funds to have a new headstone marking the resting place of their brother.
This son died very young in life and had little chance to create an extended life history. Jesse was sealed to his parents in the Logan Temple.