Girl again laid to rest 145 years after her first burial

Dozens of community members, cemetery workers and event organizers dressed in black attended her burial at Greenlawn Memorial Park in Colma, California, where about 30,000 people originally buried in San Francisco’s Odd Fellows Cemetery were moved to in the early 1920s. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Sunday.

A local poet read an original work to honor the little girl, who appeared to be about 3 and was dubbed Miranda Eve, at the ceremony Saturday attended by about 100 people and led by a volunteer minister.

“I rejoice that you’ve found it in your hearts to come offer your love, your care and to be here for this little girl,” retired Minister Allan Musterer told the crowd. “The discovery of Miranda is such a happening outside of what anyone could deem as normal.”

The well-preserved body of the unidentified girl was found May 9 in an airtight coffin that helped preserved her golden locks of hair and even a rose she held in her hand. The metal and glass coffin was unearthed from under a concrete garage floor by workers doing remodeling work at a house in the city’s Richmond District.

Elissa Davey, the founder of the Garden of Innocence charity, helped arrange the girl’s reburial.

“It was tough, very tough,” Davey said about the process, as she began to cry. “But she is not just our child. She is everyone’s.”