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cranfeckintastic t1_itzdl6x wrote

Reply to comment by atlantis_airlines in TIL: The famous Alaskan sled dog "Balto" was preserved in taxidermy and is on display at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio. by alex6219

There's an old cemetary near town here, where the original settlement was. The dates that are still discernible on the gravestones are between 1880-1899 and there's one in particular that has I think three or four children from the same family engraved on it. Back then it was probably pneumonia or TB that did them in as I don't imagine the winters around here in those days were very forgiving.

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Mr_Abe_Froman t1_itzvyyg wrote

Last time I went to the cemetery where my grandfather and his family are buried, I noticed a grave for a 3-year-old child from the 1890s. It was a sculpture of a small sapling tree cut down and the image really stuck with me.

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