Not everybody found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!
Cemetery, Clunes Central Victoria.
This cemetery dating from 1851 is the earliest cemetery on the Victorian goldfields. There are many unrecorded graves in the cemetery, with the first recorded burial that of Mary Hannah Jeffery buried at 11 weeks old on 15 February 1861. Life on the goldfields was tough, and during the 1860s and 1870s there could be as many as 5 burials a day, many of them children who struggled with living in tents or huts, poor sanitation and often little food. Only those who found gold could afford elaborate headstones.
So interesting. Funny that a pot of gold could buy a grand headstone but end of life did not discriminate between the rich and the poor. Works well in B&W.
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