Market Ghost Tours

Last year I had a very interesting man on the ghost tour. He had been a part of trying to find the families of children who had died with very little record during the flu pandemic in Seattle. He told me that when the original Butterworth Mortuary sold in 1999, they discovered the cremains of over a thousand children that had died from illness in Seattle's early history, specifically during the flu pandemics of 1918 and 1919. The cremains were kept in urns in the basement of 1921 1st Avenue. This story has created great intrigue for me and we talk about it on the tour. He went on to tell me that the cremains were on Queen Anne in a mausoleum of sorts. Every time I went searching for this mausoleum, I could never seem to find it, I was expecting a large structure. Tonight I spent some time at Mt. Pleasant cemetery and walked through the graves in search of something that might resemble a marker to the unnamed children of Seattle. I asked, in my mind, as I walked, for guidance in finding the marker. This is what I was led to. A large grave, with this incredible brass statue on top. I will have to stop by the office of the cemetery for confirmation, but the excitement of this discovery has led me to post these incredible pictures.