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Tombstone
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It’s not a good sign when your parenting track record is recorded on a tombstone…
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Robin says:August 8, 2011 at
More of a Greg fail than a parent fail.
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GoodMommie says:July 8, 2011 at
Kids died of the FLU in those days! Children died all the time from many untreatable diseases….
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meg says:June 17, 2011 at
its could be from lots of things sickness , to the first child maybe died at birth idk its sad though in either case. had to be hard on the mother hoping she was just in a unlucky situation and not in a crazy mother or abuser
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Jellie says:June 16, 2010 at
Random, Mirror may be trying to say that they may have been pets…Can you allow someone to be optomisitc about something?
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Heidi says:May 23, 2010 at
I can’t imagine loosing one child, let alone two in one year. I feel sorry for the parents more than anything.
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goodgrief says:May 21, 2010 at
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.Like or Dislike:
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Random says:March 24, 2010 at
Comment from Mirror
Time: December 28, 2009, 10:14 pmWho knows if these are the names of people? I mean, nothing says those are children.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ummm… Are you a freaking moron?
How many adults do you know that are 7 years old and born outside of a leap year?
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Get Real says:February 4, 2010 at
This is an education fail for the poster.
There were influenza epidemics in all of these years.Like or Dislike:
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Mirror says:December 28, 2009 at
Who knows if these are the names of people? I mean, nothing says those are children.
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The Wifey says:December 4, 2009 at
This was a category fail and doesn’t belong here.
This is sad.
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JJ says:November 8, 2009 at
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..
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Jean-Marc says:September 22, 2009 at
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.
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Alex says:September 21, 2009 at
poor form
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J says:August 14, 2009 at
…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?
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Britt says:August 11, 2009 at
Maybe they were pets.
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Min says:August 5, 2009 at
Just for clarity, my previous comment was agreeing with K.
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Min says:August 5, 2009 at
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.
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FFFFFFFFUUU says:August 5, 2009 at
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.
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K says:August 4, 2009 at
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.
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Bethann says:August 4, 2009 at
This is just sad and you hope it was simply bad luck and nothing more sinister
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