SAN FRANCISCO—Researchers are one step closer to identifying the remains of a two-year-old child who died nearly 140 years ago.
Researcher, Alex Snyder, told CBS San Francisco that her team is within days of finding out the true identity of the little girl who was found in a metal coffin holding a rose during a San Francisco home renovation earlier this year.
Snyder and her team claim to have found a possible familial match.
“We’ve identified a really strong candidate, we’re just waiting on DNA results,” Snyder said.
Snyder hopes to reunite the little girl’s remains with her family. Researchers believe the remains of the two year-old girl were left behind after Odd Fellows Cemetery was mandated to relocate to Colma, California 100 years ago.
Since the discovery of the coffin, researchers have been consulting old burial and undertaker records to reconstruct the Odd Fellow Cemetery grounds.
The old burial records were unkempt, and the possible familial match Synder found is not listed in the cemetery’s official burial records.
“The records for the cemetery weren’t that great, and the people who were removing the bodies didn’t have good information to work with,” Snyder told CBS.
The girl in the casket was reburied in Colma and temporarily named Miranda Eve until researchers can uncover her true identity.
