Well, I'd say possibly, but I'm not sure, without checking the grave, that she wasn't past CB age.Fair enough. I too have spend reflective hours in English graveyards reflecting on life and doing the "memento mori" thing. The number of female deaths in the late teens and early 20's is staggering and if you check the registers you'll see it wasn't unusual for a man of means to marry repeatedly as wives kept dying bearing heirs. The saddest one I've seen was an entire family of 8 kids dead of what they called "plague" with mother surviving another 40 years.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
