A tale of family fates
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A tale of family fates
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 24 Sep 2013
A memorial to a Cornish family that details the spread of smallpox as it claimed many siblings in the eighteenth century. As is the custom, the bottom of the tablet features two skulls.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.723747
Longitude
-3.532691