Monday, June 7, 2010

Help Identify the Little Girl Buried in the N. C. Grave

Here is an interesting Story: About 1925 a man, alone buries his little girl in a cemetery owned by the Mormon Church in Hampstead, N. C. The only witness to the burial is a nine year old boy.

With the completion of the burial, the man plants a cedar tree. He pays the boy a quarter to water the tree for seven days. Now, eighty five years later, the tree is the only marker for a young girl who died too soon. And the search is on to find her identity.

Read the article in the Deseret News at:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700036441/ID-sought-of-little-girl-left-in-North-Carolina-grave-85-years-ago.html

An interesting article. And, thanks to Eastman's On-line Genealogical Newsletter for bringing this to my attention.

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