Laurel Hill Cemetery at Grey Towers
September 16, 2013
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I've read that until recent times, average life expectancy was around 45 years. I had thought then that the average was pulled down by the infant and child deaths due to diseases untreatable back then, but that once past childhood people grew to ripe old ages. This cemetery proves me wrong. People did indeed die at the age of 45 or earlier as this one gravestone shows.
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