Seeing as it was 1700's there is no telling maybe they didn't attend church.
___________________________________________________ Pictures that I have taken on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jt-johnson/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Sorenson Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 8:41 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO: Cemetery and some test captures 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 > > -- Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
