A cast iron casket has been found in a home in San Francisco a year ago and a year later, the baby girl inside has been identified.
CASKET – Last year, a closed coffin was found in a home in San Francisco with a little girl in it and now, a year later, her identity has been identified.
According to the report of the KTVU Fox News, a construction crew was the one who had found the preserved little girl in a closed casket along a home in Rossi Street just near the University of San Francisco.
The girl inside the coffin has a long blonde hair, wearing a white lacy dress and she is holding a cross made of flower on her chest.
She was given a name and that is Miranda Eve but it was found out that the baby girl’s real name is Edith Howard Cook.
As mentioned on the report, the genealogist and founder of the Garden of Innocence Project, Elissa Davey, buried the little girl once again in Colma and is ascertain to know the truth behind the real roots of the identity of the baby.
Through DNA, the identity has been known including her close relatives.
The baby girl is Edith Howard Cook, a daughter of Horatio Nelson and Edith Scooffy Cook and did at the age of two on October 13, 1876.
The cause of baby Edith’s death was Marasmus, the term was coined during the 1800’s which means severe undernourishment.
Casket of Edith was 37 inches in length made of metal with two viewing windows and was tightly sealed the reason why the body is preserved.
As to how Edith got her nickname Miranda Eve, ‘Eve’ was given by the Public Administrators while the ‘Miranda’ was given by the two young daughters of John and Ericka Karner.
John and Ericka Karner was the one who uncovered the casket which was found during the excavation of their backyard thus, making them the one responsible of the baby girl inside.
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