The Old Burying Ground headstone inscriptions inform us about the past. When the dates on the headstones are analyzed there appears to be a correlation between increase interment and cholera epidemics.
The numbers increase during the 1932 and 1849 cholera epidemics and spike during the Civil War dates.
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