Maytie Raker was only 4 months old when she died on July 20, 1906, and was the first person whose body was buried at Inglewood Cemetery in California, USA, even before the city grew around the site. However, the baby's grave was forgotten for 120 years, without a headstone to identify it, and ended up covered by grass over the decades.
Inglewood Councilman Alex Padilla told CBS News that it was necessary to do justice to the Raker family. He described the moment as a day of "gone, but never forgotten," celebrating Maytie's life. The baby's story was finally corrected when a headstone was placed on her grave, decorated with butterflies and a flower, with the phrase "forever in our hearts" written above her name.
Maytie is buried next to her sister Hattie, who also died as a child and whose headstone features similar visual elements. Hattie had also been buried without identification, but received a headstone in the same decorative style as a gesture of historical reparation for the family.
