Wednesday, October 10, 2018

THE TRAGIC TALE OF THE GIRL IN BLUE | M.P. Pellicer

For more than 70 years, a solitary grave under a lonely mulberry tree in Willoughby Cemetery simply read: "Girl in Blue. Killed By Train. December 24, 1933. Unknown, But Not Forgotten." The ground around the grave is littered with dimes and pennies in remembrance of this unknown victim of tragedy.


1933
Christmas was two days away, and a young woman dressed in a navy blue skirt came to the ticket window at a Greyhound bus station, and asked about fare to Erie, Pennsylvania and Elmira, New York. She eventually purchased a ticket to Willoughby, Ohio.

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