Posted by JerryS on May 28, 2012 at 21:32:03 from (98.80.95.80):
In Reply to: Old Cemetaries posted by Tom Bond on May 28, 2012 at 19:58:11:
When I was a lad one of my summer jobs (in addition to milking cows in our dairy and other farm-related work) was mowing the community cemetery. Took all day.
But I enjoyed looking at the monuments and trying to make some guesses about the people interred there. Some of the monuments had permanent porcelain photos of the deceased embedded in the stone. I thought that was especially neat.
I have spent time in other old cemeteries as well. One thing that struck me was the number of people that died of the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918. You would know that's what is was, because several members of one family, particularly chidren, would have died within a week or two of each other.
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