Archaeologies of the Heart by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030363505
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Fig. 9.3The headstones of two children buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana. The same types of stones may be found in rural garden cemeteries across the United States. More simple stones such as these were used to commemorate younger children or children of less wealthy families, but they were no less sentimental. The most common image for children’s headstones throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is the lamb. The lamb here is for the son of M&A Borbecker, with a very simple epitaph expressing this 4-year-old place in the family. The memorial placed to commemorate 4-year-old Floyd on the right includes the simple phrase, “our darling,” which concisely conveys a sense of family belonging and parental loss. (Photos courtesy of James E. Dourney)

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