On a hike today at Echo Bluffs State Park, we came across a small cemetery set into a beautiful spot on the side of a hill. Some of the dates of birth ranged back into the early 1800s.
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And though I saw adults here and there, it quickly became apparent that the majority of the 50 or so headstones were of young children, most less than five years old, each having one of five surnames. It's a reminder of how bad things were before modern childhood vaccines and medicine.
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