Category Archives: Children’s Graves

Sleeping Children

Posted on April 12, 2015 by gravelyspeaking

JOHN CLAIR MALONE BORN OCT 10, 1890 DIED FEB 16, 1894  [This gravestone has a girl resting against a pillow carved on the front of the gravestone but the gravestone marks the grave of four-year old John Clair Malone.  His … Continue reading →

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Edna Miriam Paul

Posted on November 9, 2014 by gravelyspeaking

EDNA MIRIAM PAUL BORN AUG. 23, 1897 DIED MAY 2, 1907. Many hopes are buried here The likeness of 9 ½ year old Edna Miriam Paul in the St. Luke Cemetery at Chicago, Illinois, was created in the Victorian style … Continue reading →

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Reach for the sky

Posted on October 16, 2014 by gravelyspeaking

This small monument is dedicated to the memory of a infant girl, the epitaph too faint and eroded to read clearly, is in the form of a bed.  The covers are pulled aside and the pillow still has an indentation where the … Continue reading →

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Eternal Sleep

Posted on October 14, 2014 by gravelyspeaking

The most poignant and tender gravestones are those for children.  In the 1850s, the mortality rates for children under one year, were estimated at over 200 deaths per thousand, with much higher mortality rates for children under 5. Here, is … Continue reading →

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Sisters

Posted on September 27, 2014 by gravelyspeaking

NAOMI G. Daughter of J & E. YARDLEY DIED July 5, 1849 AGED 5Y, 2M, & 8 D. A sister reposes underneath this sod A sister to memory dear and dear to God; Rejoice yet shed the sympathetic tear, My … Continue reading →

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I pray the Lord my soul to take

Posted on September 22, 2014 by gravelyspeaking

HENRY A. BURR ONLY SON OF HENRY A. & HARRIET A. BURR BORN [ILLEGIBLE] 1843. DIED [ILLEGIBLE] 1850. [3 LINE EPITAPH ILLEGIBLE] The white marble gravestone in the Green-Wood Cemetery at Brooklyn, New York, for Henry Burr, 7 year-old son … Continue reading →

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Now I lay me down to sleep

Posted on September 18, 2014 by gravelyspeaking

HATTIE A. BURR DAUGHTER OF HENRY A. & HARRIET A. BURR BORN NOVEMBER 9TH 1851. DIED MARCH 3RD 1860.   WE KNOW THAT GOD HAS BUT RECALLED THE GEM THAT HE HAS GIVEN; AND THOUGH THE CASKET MOULDER HERE THE … Continue reading →

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The Lamb and the Little Boy

Posted on October 16, 2013 by gravelyspeaking

Precious Boy JOHN T. SON OF J.H. & K. L. ALDERSON 1894-1897. The gravestone of three-year old John Alderson depicts a boy in a dressing gown with his chubby little hand gently touching the head of a small lamb.  The … Continue reading →

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An Empty Bassinet

Posted on August 28, 2013 by gravelyspeaking

MARY WIGGLESWORTH BORN JAN. 29, 1883. DIED DEC. 19, 1884. The intricately-carved white marble gravestone of Mary Wigglesworth, who died just shy of her first birthday, is an empty bassinet, her inscription on the pillow.  The symbolism is obvious.  The … Continue reading →

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Budded on Earth

Posted on May 23, 2013 by gravelyspeaking

HERRMAN REINHARDT BORN JULY 18, 1866. DIED MARCH 17, 1887. WHERE IMMORTAL SPIRITS REIGN THERE WE SHALL MEET AGAIN. Life is fragile, especially young life.  Many funerary motifs represent children–shoes, seedpods, cribs, cherubs–but one of the most common is the … Continue reading →

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