Friends of Mt. Hope Cemetery<\/a>, a group which helps with upkeep on the 200-acre property. “We were voted, for three years, the number one tour for the city of Rochester.”<\/p>\n“It\u2019s a great place,” said Tom Jones, a fellow volunteer. “You come here, it’s peaceful. It’s in the middle of the city, but you can hear the birds chirping and deer running by and things like that.”<\/p>\n
The cemetery is the final resting place for more than 370,000 Rochesterians. And, it turns out, one long-deceased woman \u2014 whose tombstone has people talking.<\/p>\n
Last week, there was a big wind storm. Jones was in the cemetery at the time, and he drove around looking for damage. He found an old Norway Maple lying across several grave markers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then he took a closer look.<\/p>\n
“I just happened to look over my shoulder, and it’s like, wow,” he said. “It’s like, right there.”<\/p>\n
A headstone \u2014 which had been buried beneath the ground and the trunk of the tree \u2014 almost perfectly preserved.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve never seen anything like that,” said Jones. “Being exposed like that? No. That was a trip.”<\/p>\n
Jones shared some photos with Petote, who later posted the discovery on the Friends of Mt. Hope Facebook page. The response was immediate.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m like, ‘oh my god, that’s crazy,’ ” she said.<\/p>\n
Petote began researching the name on the stone. Edna Amelia Goodman Allen died in 1918. The wife, and mother of a young son, was just 26. Somehow, her headstone held up.<\/p>\n
“At first I thought it was great, because it was very legible,” she said. “You could read it, which my assumption is because it’s been underground. It’s been protected.”<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s a feel-good story,” said Jones. “You know, someone that had been there, she died over 100 years ago and now we’re talking about her.”<\/p>\n
Volunteers are waiting on city cemetery crews to remove the mess, so they can spruce up the gravesite.<\/p>\n
“It was something unusual, and a neat thing to find,” said Petote. “We\u2019ll do our best to do her justice.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 When a tree fell during a storm in a historic Rochester cemetery recently, it uncovered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[231,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,115,4274,200],"class_list":["post-279511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-human-interest","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-rochester","tag-seth-voorhees","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}