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Comment from Bethann
Time: August 4, 2009, 8:50 am

This is just sad and you hope it was simply bad luck and nothing more sinister

Comment from K
Time: August 4, 2009, 12:13 pm

This entry is unfair. Just look at the dates, with influenza, polio, no antibiotics or modern vaccines, these things happened. It has nothing to do with parenting.

Comment from FFFFFFFFUUU
Time: August 5, 2009, 11:04 am

If it’s just bad luck, then, sad – and i feel for those parents.

But if it’s genetic, you’d think that most people with a brain would stop breeding when their 3rd child got permabanned from life. Ugh. Unfortunately, humans really CAN be that stupid, and it wouldn’t surprise me the least if at least half of these deaths were caused by genetic stuff.

Comment from Min
Time: August 5, 2009, 11:05 am

Yes, if you go round any graveyard you can see scores of children and young people on older gravestones. It is very sad. We don’t know how lucky we are – it is just expected that children will grow up now.

Comment from Min
Time: August 5, 2009, 1:54 pm

Just for clarity, my previous comment was agreeing with K.

Comment from Britt
Time: August 11, 2009, 7:13 pm

Maybe they were pets.

Comment from J
Time: August 14, 2009, 8:51 am

…really? You’re going to snark about children who have passed away about seventy-something years ago, when many illnesses could kill you no matter what age you were, due to the lack of medical knowledge and advancements we now have today? …….REALLY?

Comment from Alex
Time: September 21, 2009, 4:58 am

poor form

Comment from Jean-Marc
Time: September 22, 2009, 2:28 pm

But then again diseases were much more common then and the survival of an infant was not very good.

In some developing countries the death rate is still very high.

Comment from JJ
Time: November 8, 2009, 12:13 am

When doing some genealogy a while ago, I found a similar thing (though it was around 1850), and maybe that was even worse.. They had 15 kids, from which 11 died in almost the same year as they were born. What the reason was? I doubt it was bad parenting.. in that time it happened a lot that kids died very young due to all kinds of diseases..

Comment from The Wifey
Time: December 4, 2009, 2:55 am

This was a category fail and doesn’t belong here.
This is sad.

Comment from Mirror
Time: December 28, 2009, 10:14 pm

Who knows if these are the names of people? I mean, nothing says those are children.

Comment from Get Real
Time: February 4, 2010, 6:06 am

This is an education fail for the poster.
There were influenza epidemics in all of these years.

Comment from Random
Time: March 24, 2010, 1:15 am

Comment from Mirror
Time: December 28, 2009, 10:14 pm

Who knows if these are the names of people? I mean, nothing says those are children.
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Ummm… Are you a freaking moron?

How many adults do you know that are 7 years old and born outside of a leap year?

Comment from goodgrief
Time: May 21, 2010, 11:49 am

During the Depression it’s not surprising children died young – maternal health would be poor due to nutritional deficiencies. Innumerable children died of scarlet fever, chicken pox, mumps, measles – all diseases which are now rare due to immunization.
Re: birth control – are you kidding? They would never have heard about it, or know how. Not to mention it was a crime.

Comment from Heidi
Time: May 23, 2010, 11:31 am

I can’t imagine loosing one child, let alone two in one year. I feel sorry for the parents more than anything.

Comment from Jellie
Time: June 16, 2010, 10:40 am

Random, Mirror may be trying to say that they may have been pets…Can you allow someone to be optomisitc about something?