When Liz Denny set out to clear brush and tidy up her back yard last October, she found more than fallen leaves and twigs. Her rake scraped over a flat stone that lay under a few inches of loose dirt and leaves. A closer inspection revealed that this was no ordinary rock. The small rectangular marble slab appeared to be a gravestone.
As she brushed away the dirt, the name “Alice” emerged. The stone and the inscription had been worn away by age and the elements. It looked, to the amateur genealogist, as though it dated to the 19th Century, a time when smaller stone slabs often were to mark children’s graves.
Click here to read what Liz discovered, and what her wife, songwriter Julie Pokela, wrote in tribute to little Alice's story.