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Titel: SV: Help with tombstone inscription -- Ringsted, Iowa USA
Skrivet av: Signe Hangeland skrivet 2019-08-24, 20:33
Citat från: antip skrivet 2019-08-24, 19:58
Hej

Here below rests
the ash of
Mathilde
Andersen
the wife of
Hans Andersen
born the 3(?) Oct.
1859
Died the 18
Mar. 1905

Regards,
Anti

Thank you!   Can you describe the language choice, for example, is it a standard type or is it more Danish, or something in between?

Now I am wondering why she was cremated, or if there was a fire.  Cremation doesn't seem normal for a Lutheran community ca. 1905, especially in a very rural area with a lot of land for a graveyard.   The population there is still only 400 people after all these years.   Then again, I am not so familiar with Lutheran traditions.