Pauper's grave

This is a really superb set of images of utter desolation......difficult to see how anyone could get comfort from a visit to lost souls lying here!

Thank you for sharing Diane.......wonderfull!!!!

Thank you, Cheryl. This is a very neglected old cemetery out in the country, but there is still an occasional burial there. I read somewhere that indigent people from Klamath Falls, the city I live in, were buried here for many years. Some graves are entirely unmarked. Also here are many infants from the KF hospital who died at birth and those born of unwed women. To me, this seems the ultimate expression of societal shame, even scorn, and is much sadder than the graves with proper stones. I noticed that some infants did not even have names, which I think was fairly common in the 19th century. Of course, it's different, now.

In Los Angeles unclaimed bodies are cremated and then the remains (between 1000 and 2000) are buried in one grave with a simple civil ceremony.