Rosalia Lombardo in Catacombs Palermo, Italy.
San Fransisco discovery.
Not a soul at the gravesite knew anything about the child, yet some wept as she was lowered into the ground a second time.
About 140 perfect strangers gathered on a foggy, San Fransisco morning to honor a 3-year-old girl who died more than 140 years ago. The perfectly preserved mystery child had been unearthed by contractors renovating a home in San Francisco’s Richmond District earlier this month.
When she was found, she was entombed in a metal casket with glass windows, through which her blonde curly hair, her alabaster skin and a rose covering her chest could be clearly seen.
“It looked like her mother had just laid her in there yesterday,” Elissa Davey told InsideEdition.com Monday. Davey runs Garden of Innocence, which buries unidentified children with the help of donated money and services.
“She still had her eyelashes, she still had her skin,” Davey said.
The homeowner’s family had renamed the girl Miranda Eve after her remains were discovered under a concrete floor. They had reached out to Davey and her organization after becoming stuck in a bureaucratic morass of red tape.
City officials wouldn’t take possession of the body because it had been found on private property.
Homeowner Ericka Karner said she had been told by an undertaker that it would cost $7,000 to reinter the little girl’s body. Even if she had $7,000 to spend on a stranger’s burial, Karner wouldn’t have been able to bury the remains because she didn’t have a death certificate.
“She was stuck. She didn’t know what to do,” Davey said. “She couldn’t just leave someone’s child in her backyard.” Eventually, Karner was referred to Davey.
"I said, 'Don’t worry, I got this,'" Davey said.
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The first photo is NOT of the girl in the coffin recently found in Northern California. That is a photo of Rosalia Lombardo, who lies in rest in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo, Italy.
ReplyDeleteYou are right. Just a kind of correlation to the Northern Carolina discovery. Caption effected. Thanks a great deal.
DeletePlus the 145 year old girl found under a house in SAN FRANCISCO was Miranda Eve. Not North Carolina. Havent found ANYTHING about a child found in NC at all....
DeleteYou are right. Just a kind of correlation to the Northern Carolina discovery. Caption effected. Thanks a great deal.
ReplyDeleteOk will sure do an investigation on this development. Thanks alot
ReplyDeleteNicole Baker you are right that must be an editorial error. You will realise the content of the post had San Fransisco as against the headline that had North Carolina.
ReplyDeleteCorrected!!!
Mirana Eve is Edith Cook
ReplyDeleteMirana Eve is Edith Cook
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