SEATTLE – Just hours after going public with the case of a lost tombstone, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office has tracked down the cemetery that the stone was stolen from at least three decades ago, KIRO-TV reported.
After appealing to the public for help, sheriff’s deputies started getting phone calls and e-mails from people using Web sites such as http://findagrave.com and http://ancestry.com. Within hours, they had found the rest of 3-year-old Maggie Lloyd’s family and her final resting place, KIRO-TV reported.
One caller, Pam Crim, said it was the small Pioneer Cemetery in King County, where Maggie was buried a century ago. The cemetery also contained the graves of her parents, James and Eliza Lloyd, her sister, Hannah, and brother, David.
The plan now is to return the tombstone to the place she was buried, and if that can’t be found, place it close to her relatives in King County.
Sheriff’s officials began trying to find the owner, or grave, of the Victorian-era headstone after discovering it Sept. 5 in an overgrown lot in the 15700 block of Ash Way.
Talk to us
> Give us your news tips.
> Send us a letter to the editor.
> More Herald contact information.
