The children's graveyard

South Carolina · United States · Cemetery

A burial ground behind a filling station near the university, mostly children. The stones run from the late 1700s to the late 1800s.

Behind a filling station near Furman University at Greenville, South Carolina there is a small burial ground, and most of the graves in it are children's. The stones date from the late 1700s to the late 1800s.

What is reported there is lights, laughter, and the sound of running.

Additional information filed in May 2008 gives the route: drive just past it and there is a short unmarked road, and the trail into the graveyard is at the end of it.

A hundred years of stones, most of them small, is what child mortality looked like before the twentieth century. Roughly one child in four did not reach the age of five, and a family burial ground would hold several from one household.

Laughter and running are what people report, which is either the most obvious projection in this archive or the least frightening thing in it.

It is a burial ground behind a shop, and it should be treated as one.

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Where is The children's graveyard located?

The children's graveyard is in South Carolina, United States.