Creepy thing to find during a remodel.
I wonder it the house “always had an oder” to it.
“The resident turned the ornate casket over to the Garden of Innocence, a charity that buries unclaimed children, to handle the girl’s affairs.”
Only in San Francisco would a 2 year old girl that has been dead for 140 years have an affair.
Memory eternal.
That’s some airtight casket - check out the last shot in the embedded video in the article. In the 19th century the city closed all the cemeteries in the city limits and relocated the bodies to cemeteries in Colma and elsewhere for space reasons. Obviously they missed one.
Marasmus, huh? In a kid from a well-to-do family? FWIW, I’d have someone take a real good look at those remains.
When I was about twelve, there was a new girl that moved to our small town. She lived with her grandmother, in a “rented” house and not a great street. I thought this girl was the berries and my mother didn’t like me hanging with her. Finally after months of begging, my mom let me walk to her house after school. We had a snack in the dining room and hanging on the wall was a large oval ornate framed picture of a little toddler in a coffin. I could not wait until my mom picked me up and I never went back, scared me to death!
Just imagine, when she was buried nobody had any idea there would be a genetic test to verify her identity 140 years in the future. It makes me wonder what will be possible many years in our future.