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Stories from Maine cemeteries : lives cut short /

"Maine gravestones from the 1800s were decorated with snapped flower buds, broken tree branches, and cracked columns to reveal that those buried below died before their time. From lightning strikes to shipwrecks, accidents to disease -- and even a sensational murder -- there were many causes fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Romano, Ron (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2026.
Subjects:
Maine > Biography.
Maine > 19th century > Biography.
Cemeteries > Maine.
Sepulchral monuments > Maine.
Maine > Biographies.
Maine > 19e siècle > Biographies.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • The best century ever!
  • Secrets held one hundred years
  • Acorns
  • Columns
  • Lambs
  • A barber charged with manslaughter
  • Trees
  • Flowers and a fallen leaf
  • Slumbering children
  • The foundering of the Jack Frost
  • A marriage denied
  • Far from home
  • Too many, too soon
  • A murder in Biddeford
  • When lightning strikes
  • Three curiosities
  • Paupers' graves in Scarborough
  • The pendulum swings.