Sad pictures

[nico1908]

I have been infected by the sharpchick  graveyard photography bug and spent an hour wandering around one of our local historic cemeteries this afternoon, taking pictures of headstones to add to entries on www.findagrave.com. My old digital camera gave up after only 50 photos, so I didn't get very far, but among the pictures I took were these two heartbreaking ones:

I wonder what happened to Mathew. How old was he when he died? Who put up the stone and why were they sorry?



And how sad is this one? No name, the marker misspelled - apparently nobody cared about this little girl.


ETA: And there are too many of the following...