The following excerpt is from an article in the August 8, 2010 edition of the Times Union. Quite a story…
Over the course of a century, silver maple trees grew to a height of more than 70 feet and dappled a gently sloping lawn in Section 32 of St. Agnes Cemetery [Located in Menands, Albany County, NY] with a spreading blanket of restorative shade.
For all those decades, nothing marked the open ground beneath the trees where three orphans who drowned in a pond on the property were buried in a pauper’s grave.
Now, 107 years later, they have been commemorated by a large granite marker as a gift from an anonymous donor.
The front of the monument bears the names and ages of the three who died on Sept. 5, 1903: Mary Breen, 16; Grace Burns, 19; and Mary O’Brien, 20.
Read the full article by Paul Grondahl.
Thanks to Pat Morrow for alerting me about this story.
