Toddler buried in 1870s found in casket under home. The story of a small glass cast iron casket began in the 1870s at San Francisco’s Odd Fellows Cemetery. About 140 years later, last May, the story came back. A construction crew at a home on Rossi Street near the University of San Francisco found the sealed casket inside. They found a little girl with long blonde hair wearing a long white lace dress.
She had a cross made of flowers on her chest and she was nicknamed Miranda Eve. Now we know that her real name is Edith Howard Cook. Alyssa Davey, a genealogist and founder of the Garden of Innocence Project, reburied the little girl in Coma last year. Davey says she was also determined to discover the real story of the girl, including the date of her death. Read the full story here ▶
