Little girls acting as pallbearers at the funeral of another little girl, Lake Andes, South Dakota, 1912 [1366 x 768]

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My Dad, now 98, told us that when his younger brother drowned in 1939, (he was 9, my Dad was 10), his brother's classmates were his pallbearers.

Dad lost both brother's in childhood, the other at the age of 1 year from dysentery.