> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Jeffery Johnson

> Okay I am getting sleepy... What I meant to write was: While growing up
> we
> lived out in the country and rented a house that was on a farm. In one
> of
> the fields near an old tree lay three or four tombstones one was for a
> child
> no more than 20 days old. If my memory serves me correctly he was born
> Dec.
> 5 and died Dec. 25 in the 1800's.

it was all too common in those days. Note the dates on this picture I took a
couple of years ago:
<http://www.web-options.com/2009/content/_C255704_large.html>

There's a famous set of graves in the churchyard at Cooling in North Kent of
13 little brothers and sisters who all died young. I have a photo of it
somewhere, but it's not to hand right now, so here's a link to someone
else's:
<http://www.coolingchurch.org.uk/userimages/Pips%20Graves.jpg>
from here:
<http://www.coolingchurch.org.uk/index.htm>

They feature in the opening scene of Great Expectations.

B


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