Traveling in western Massachusetts in 1967 I happened across a cemetery
overgrown with weeds with few headstones. One was for two brothers,
dating from the early 1700's. One brother died at age 12, the other
several years later at 21. The epitaph..."Few and evil were their
days". I have often wondered what a 12 year old could have done to
deserve that kind of ire.
-p
On 5/4/2011 2:31 AM, Bob W wrote:
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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