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Hard Times

St Mary's Church graveyard, Capel-le-Ferne, Kent.

 

It's hard enough dying at age 40 after a long and painful illness, but imagine how that would have been in 1877.

 

The three Gilbert boys were aged 21, 12, and 19.

From Frederick's stone:

"Here locked in peace, our darling rest beneath

An early Victim to the rage of Death

A Fathers hope a Mothers tender care

Blighted by one rude blast is buried here."

 

I will moan once again about the loss of resolution when uploading to Flickr. A lot of detail has been lost from these stones.

 

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Uploaded on January 6, 2022
Taken on January 5, 2022