Local Legend Gains Interest

Recently an article was published in the Mormon Times about a little girl who was buried in the Hampstead Latter-Day Saint cemetary 85 years ago and the mystery of her identity.

Looking for answers about a Mormon girl buried in a N.C. grave

By Jake Hancock

HAMPSTEAD, N.C. -- The father had helplessly watched his little girl deteriorate from sickness to death a few days earlier. And now he stands 2,500 miles from home with a borrowed shovel in his hand.

Besides the company of a 9-year-old local boy who happened upon the scene, the solemn father, a Mormon traveling from Utah, was alone as he buried his child in an unfamiliar North Carolina cemetary just off the atlantic shoreline. There were no pallbearers or relatives to help carrythe actual and emotional weight of it all. There were no flowers. And there were no prayers -- as least none uttered aloud

It was just a father in a grassless, windswept cemetary toiling to tear open a fresh wound in the earth as precisely wide as the size of the hole left in his heart...

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The article has recieved a lot of attention since being published in the Mormon Times. Deseret News, WECT Channel 6 News of Wilmington and KSL Channel 5 News of Salt Lake City, have all featured the story. Click on any of the logos below to view videos and articles about the story.

Laura McLeod has been recieving many phone calls from concerned and interested followers of this story from around the United States, eager to help in any way they can. We're excited and hopeful that the mystery of the girls identity will be solved, and look forward to sharing it with you when it happens.