Rosalie Raymond White’s (d. 1882) headstone is actually a detailed bassinet, and her likeness is peering out of it with a green patina to her little face.
There was a time when creating plaster cast masks was popular. Rosalie is an example of a mask. Not many are left undamaged.
A number of children in this family passed at an early age. Rosalie is the only one with this type of elaborate monument though.
It’s not unusual to find small gifts here.
The stones here sit under trees, on the edge of water. A storm will take it’s toll sooner or later. However for now time has been kind to this spot.
So sad. Thank you for sharing. Thank goodness for modern medicine and vaccines.
Fires, big ones were common too.
Yes. I’m researching my family history. One of our young relatives died when she was trying her wedding dress on on the eve of her wedding, and it caught from the hearth fire. She was only 20. The groom to be never married. Two lives ruined. So sad.
Such a heartbreak.
There were several epidemics here, the war, huge earthquake… much sadness.