Her name was Edith Howard Cook and she left on October 13, 1876, at the age of 2 years, 10 months, and 15 days. She was buried on the 15th of the month in a small glass and cast-iron casket in a family plot in the Yerba Buena section of the Odd Fellows Cemetery, which closed in 1902. Some 30,000 remains were exhumed in the 1930s and reburied at Greenlawn Memorial Park in Colma - but, somehow, baby Edith was left behind. Her unidentified casket was found in someone's backyard 140 years later. Inside were found the perfectly preserved remains of a little girl with long blonde hair, wearing a long white lace dress. She had a cross made of flowers on her chest. Roses, eucalyptus leaves, and baby’s breath were also placed along her body. After hundreds of hours of research and a DNA test revealed her true identity, a death notice was found in the San Francisco Bulletin which listed the cause of death as marasmus, a term used in the 1800s for severe malnourishment, probably caused by disease or infection.
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Note that the full text from this page as it existed when benotforgot assumed management can be found in Ancestry tree #158905859 as well as at her Family Search profile #LT3R-XLG.
Her name was Edith Howard Cook and she left on October 13, 1876, at the age of 2 years, 10 months, and 15 days. She was buried on the 15th of the month in a small glass and cast-iron casket in a family plot in the Yerba Buena section of the Odd Fellows Cemetery, which closed in 1902. Some 30,000 remains were exhumed in the 1930s and reburied at Greenlawn Memorial Park in Colma - but, somehow, baby Edith was left behind. Her unidentified casket was found in someone's backyard 140 years later. Inside were found the perfectly preserved remains of a little girl with long blonde hair, wearing a long white lace dress. She had a cross made of flowers on her chest. Roses, eucalyptus leaves, and baby’s breath were also placed along her body. After hundreds of hours of research and a DNA test revealed her true identity, a death notice was found in the San Francisco Bulletin which listed the cause of death as marasmus, a term used in the 1800s for severe malnourishment, probably caused by disease or infection.
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Note that the full text from this page as it existed when benotforgot assumed management can be found in Ancestry tree #158905859 as well as at her Family Search profile #LT3R-XLG.
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Note that the full text from this page as it existed when benotforgot assumed management can be found in Ancestry tree #158905859 as well as at her Family Search profile #LT3R-XLG.
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The Child Loved Around The World
"If no one grieves,
No one will remember."
