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Published: 2011-08-17 10:03:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 50; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 15
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Pretty hard to read the inscription, but this stone looks like it dates back to November 1897. Not nearly the oldest marker in the cemetery, but still pretty impressive! Quite a few of the graves are all but erased here, sometimes nothing but a brick lined rectangle or crumbled base of a stone remain. And many more monuments have been replaced fairly recently. But this tall gravestone still stands. Taken at the corner of Irving Park Road/Rt 19 and Rodenburg Road in Schaumburg, IL. Across from the new St John Lutheran church, and next to the former location of the classic old wooden church that may have stood since the turn of the century or earlierRelated content
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Looks like 1851-1896 Which was a long life back then.
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Think your right. I noticed most of the people buried there seemed to only live about thirty to forty years. But then there were some people born in the 1870's that seemed to live for a good seventy to ninety years! Really makes you appreciate the advances of the last hundred years or so
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Well you can imagine they had no medicines and no cures for whooping cough, cholera, yellow fever which is tropical based or mescals. If you play Oregon Trail you get the idea really fast though not everybody went west a the case in point but it still was hard but what you lack today you had then like family social and real support.
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Just not having clean water could be deadly! Can't run to the 7-11 and get a bottle of fiji if your drinking water is funky. Or if there is a drought and your crops die off. We have things pretty damn good!
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I don't know considering Texas is in the worst drought to ever hit the state in like one hundred years. Yeah but we also can go back to those times in a blink of an eye. When Ike came thru Spring we lost water in some parts and gas in everywhere else to where it was 1851 where you woke up with the sun and did whatever you could. You know what I'm talking about because you guys get tornadoes up there.
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We keep getting torrential downpours and flooding every couple of weeks, with long dry stretches and high heat and humidity. Downstate seems to get severe storms every other day though. We rarely get tornadoes around here, though SE Wisconsin has seen a few over the last couple of years and out west by Peoria, and NW Indiana sees a few. I keep hoping one of those tropical storms will give you guys some relief, that drought is horrible! I'm thinking of "borrowing" some big tank cars from work, filling them up with water from a hydrant, and shipping them down there to make a little money...
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Shit we'd need more like UP's entire fleet time 2000 plus BNSF X 30,000 to even get a foot below even. It's not just us I mean out west it is terrible right now where towns are losing their water sources because there has been no measured rain anywhere west of here for at least three months or more
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I'm not setting out to flood the state, just introduce a rare and valued commodity at a "slightly" inflated price. If they can do that and get super rich with shiny compressed coal and dinosaur juice, i should be able to make a tidy profit off the suffering masses with a little H2O, right?
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I guess so. If you put it in the middle of the desert they will come. And honestly its gotten to that point in some places 
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