Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1878 — Baby’s Grave. [ARTICLE]

Baby’s Grave.

There was a baby-funeral in Mount Elliott Cemetery, yesterday afternoon. There, were but three mourners—the father and mother and a little girl —In attendance, but they wept abundantly, and appeared to concentrate in themselves more sorrow than usually appears in mote pretentious funeral pageants. The little, common black coffin, holding so much of what was infinitely more precious to these poor peo-ple-they were Bavarians, evidently, and not long -fyom fatherland —was committed to the earth, and the sexton commenced to shovel in the dirt upon the little form it took so little to cover. Suddenly the mother threw something into the grave, whieh fell with a jingle, an(l she turned away, sobbing as if lier heart, would break. A News reporter, who happened to be present, looked into the grave and saw a little tin rattle. I’ijrqaps it was the only toy the dead infant had ever had, and the mother, (moved by the Same instinct which prompts the Indians to bury all the weapons and implements of their dead warriors in their tombs, threwlhat toy into the grave of her babe to accompany it to the spirit land. — Detroit News.