Identified Remains Of A Girl In California

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Big shock caused the discovery last year of the body of a girl of almost three years under a house in San Francisco, California. The little girl died in the 19th century from a type of malnutrition due to energy deficiency known as Marasmus, the researchers who named her Miranda Eve determined at the time.

Just one year after its discovery, it has been revealed that the girl was actually called Edith Howard Cook, she was born on November 28, 1873 and died on October 3, 1876. Identifying her "was not easy, but it was necessary," he assured. to BBC Mundo Enrique Reade, manager of Garden of Innocence, the non-profit organization in charge of burying children between one and eight years old who were abandoned and who requested the pertinent investigation. “We don't usually do this with the rest of the children. What we did with this girl was for the help and interest we received, "added Reade.

Thus, in addition to genealogists and historians, specialists in biomolecular engineering and anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Davis, they participated in the studies to obtain - thanks to the little girl's hair - her DNA and compare it with that of her nephew's grandson named Peter Cook, son of his brother Milton.

The girl was buried last year in the Greenlawn Memorial Park in the city of Colma. On June 10, starting at 11 am, a new funeral service will be held at this same site in her memory and her real name will be written on the tombstone where Miranda Eve's is currently inscribed.