From a different time and place, the headstone for baby Rosalie Raymond. She died an infant in 1882. I believe her family buried five children in this spot over time. There was a yellow fever pandemic, major earthquake, and this was a time here of rebuilding after the US Civil War.
The stone was carved like a baby carriage, her face is an actual plaster casting of the baby after she had died. This was common at the time, however very few remain anywhere. Magnolia Cemetery has several other stones that may have had casts but weather has worn them away. The shape of the carriage has protected the plaster image.
It’s a tradition here to place flowers and small remembrances to her in and around the monument.
Best viewed large.
Baby Rosalie, old Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina.
That is amazing, but slightly creepy. I have never heard of that type of headstone before…very odd 🙂
Technically they are called a ‘death mask’. One of the earliest was on the mummy of Tutankhamen, Russian Czar Peter The Great too. In the 1880’s they also cut the hair of the dead, placing strands in lockets. Funeral party favors LOL
You know what is really creepy… I know this —— 😵💫
I have seen death masks before but never on a child, or on a tombstone. I saw ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ death mask taken minutes after she had her head cut off, she was very pretty.
😳 I didn’t know they did that. !!!!
It was done in plaster apparently – it is in the Mary Queen of Scots’ museum. We saw it a couple of months ago when we were on holiday.
You’ve lasted well James 😳😉🤣
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