Ever since discovering the final resting place of Rose M. last summer, I can’t get this headstone and the young girl it represents out of my mind. So when the snow began to fall, I had to go see her.
Poor little Rose looked so cold and alone that day.
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January 26, 2007 at 1:42 am
A statue shows, that Rose M. has been loved, it`s a comforting thought.
January 26, 2007 at 4:00 am
The thought of being cold and alone is so very sad, but as Mimmu said the statue being placed there is a loving act.
January 26, 2007 at 11:56 am
Well, looking over the comments on your previous photo, if Cora Bradley was born in 1885, and Rose M. in 1898, that means that Cora had Rose when she was 13. I doubt a father figure would show up on there, especially if it was out of wedlock. These are all assumptions, but how would people react back then to a 13 year old mother?
January 26, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Shame, that’s so sad. But Mimmu’s words are comforting. Makes me think of the “Poor Little Match Girl”.
January 26, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Hey little girl, what are you doing out there alone?
January 27, 2007 at 2:20 pm
ApontePR:
It was little Rose, not her mother, who was born in 1885 and died in 1898 at the age of 13. The dates are on her tombstone.
January 29, 2007 at 10:37 am
passante,
Look at the tombstone again. It says she Rose M was born in 1898 and died in 1911.