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stevenpiziks) wrote2015-08-31 07:22 am
stevenpiziks) wrote2015-08-31 07:22 am
Graveyard Oddities
At the Mount Hope Cemetery, Darwin and I encountered some weirdo oddities. For example, this marker puzzled us mightily:
I forget what famly plot they were buried in, so I don't have a last name. Neither of these women were married. (A married woman would be buried with her husband and have her husband's last name.) Their deaths were separated by 20 years. Their births were separated by 11 years. What was their relationship? If they were sisters, why did they have such similar names? They were alive at the same time, and it doesn't seem likely someone would name one daughter Mary and eleven years later, name a second daughter Maria. (Perhaps Maria was adopted?) Why do they share a marker? Mary died in 1847. Did she not have a marker until Maria's death 20 years later in 1867? Or was Mary's marker damaged and someone decided to combine their markers?
We couldn't think of a scenario that made sense, No doubt it's something simple--Occam's Razor--but nothing simple comes to mind!
I forget what famly plot they were buried in, so I don't have a last name. Neither of these women were married. (A married woman would be buried with her husband and have her husband's last name.) Their deaths were separated by 20 years. Their births were separated by 11 years. What was their relationship? If they were sisters, why did they have such similar names? They were alive at the same time, and it doesn't seem likely someone would name one daughter Mary and eleven years later, name a second daughter Maria. (Perhaps Maria was adopted?) Why do they share a marker? Mary died in 1847. Did she not have a marker until Maria's death 20 years later in 1867? Or was Mary's marker damaged and someone decided to combine their markers?
We couldn't think of a scenario that made sense, No doubt it's something simple--Occam's Razor--but nothing simple comes to mind!