ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Last week’s brutal, damaging storm actually revealed something beautiful at Mount Hope Cemetery.
When the storm toppled a tree, it revealed the headstone of a woman who died more than 100 years ago. The marker of Edna Goodman Allen was buried under the roots, but Mother Nature brought her name back.
News10NBC Chief Investigative Reporter Berkeley Brean went to Mount Hope Cemetery to share the story.
Edna Goodman Allen 1892 – 1918
Edna Goodman married John Allen. She was born in 1892 and died in 1918 at 26 years old. For decades she was buried twice and forgotten.
Tom Jones walked the cemetery looking for damage the tree made to the headstones he could see. He was the first to see the headstone the windstorm uprooted.
“I’m not really paying attention and at some point I turn and there’s a stone right here,” Jones said. “It came down the right way and opened it up and Edna Goodman Allen is back.”
Brean asked Jones if he felt like Edna had a new life now that her name could be seen again.
“Yeah, I get choked up sometimes about this stuff because these are people that lived lives and had their own stories and we’re talking about her today,” Jones said.
Who was Edna Goodman?
Edna Goodman Allen was buried at that family plot. Her brother lies next to her. Her obituary says she had one son and died from volvulus, a fatal intestinal illness.
Chris Petote and Tom Jones are volunteers with Friends of Mount Hope.
“I think it’s a pretty amazing story,” Petote said.
“An act of nature that takes down a tree which a lot of people will say ‘oh no! It took down a beautiful tree.’ But then on the upside, it exposed a stone that had been hidden for so long,” Petote said.
Brean noted that this woman died decades ago and was then buried again by the earth and the tree, but now her name is out in the open again.
“Maybe no one has talked about her for many years,” Jones said.
“So by this happening and us talking about her and you coming out and everybody online, it is, it’s a rebirth for her to let everyone know who she was and her short life was recognized,” Petote said.
How to find her
If you want to visit Edna Goodman Allen, enter the cemetery from Elmwood Avenue, across from the hospital. Take a left on Evergreen and you’ll see the tree. Edna is right there. Brean marked the map and posted it in the web story.
The Friends of Mount Hope say when the tree is removed, they’ll help reset Edna’s headstone.
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