A young girl, buried
145 years ago in a bronze coffin that was recently discovered underneath a San
Francisco home. Construction
workers were remodeling Ericka Karner's childhood home in the Richmond
District when they hit the lead-and-bronze coffin buried underneath the
concrete garage.
The
three-foot casket's two windows revealed the perfectly preserved skin
and long blonde hair of the girl, who is believed to have died when she
was three-years-old.
It
is believed the girl was one of the 30,000 people who were buried in
the city's Odd Fellows Cemetery, which was active for 30 years before it
was forced to shut in 1890.
The
180,000 bodies were moved to a Colma burial plot in the 1920s to allow
for redevelopment - but the little girl in the long white dress and
lavender flowers in her hair was left behind.

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