In June, 1889, the body of a small child, three or four years old ... a sad reminder of the great Johnstown Flood of that year ... washed ashore near Beaver.
Local church people arranged to pay Will Atkins, a local undertaker, to give the child a Christian burial, and we are now at the grave site. To pay for the modest headstone you see here, photographs were taken of the child in her casket and sold to townspeople for ten cents each.
In 1966, with wording on the stone becoming weather-worn and hard to read, the Beaver Rotary Club arranged for installation of the bronze plaque you are viewing so there would be a permanent record of the original wording. It reads ...
Another Johnstown Flood victim, an unknown woman approximately 24 years old, was also found and interred in June, 1889, but her burial location for some reason was not recorded.