ORIGINAL STORY: Dorothy Marie Harvey was the daughter of a family that happened to be passing through Medina on their way up North to find work. Dorothy Marie sickened and died of measles. Her family buried her with the help of the good townspeople of Medina. A stone was erected by the town, as the family had no funds and had to continue on their way.
UPDATE: Death certificate indicates Dorothy died in St. Louis, Missouri, of pneumococcal septicemia, post Scarlet Fever, and was returned to Tennessee for burial.
UPDATE: Death certificate indicates Dorothy died in St. Louis, Missouri, of pneumococcal septicemia, post Scarlet Fever, and was returned to Tennessee for burial.
ORIGINAL STORY: Dorothy Marie Harvey was the daughter of a family that happened to be passing through Medina on their way up North to find work. Dorothy Marie sickened and died of measles. Her family buried her with the help of the good townspeople of Medina. A stone was erected by the town, as the family had no funds and had to continue on their way.
UPDATE: Death certificate indicates Dorothy died in St. Louis, Missouri, of pneumococcal septicemia, post Scarlet Fever, and was returned to Tennessee for burial.
UPDATE: Death certificate indicates Dorothy died in St. Louis, Missouri, of pneumococcal septicemia, post Scarlet Fever, and was returned to Tennessee for burial.
