The Mystery of Edna Farnsworth

A full century and a quarter has passed since 19-year-old Edna Farnsworth died. Her suicide made headlines from Victoria to San Francisco. She had no money but was given an expensive, fancy plot in Ross Bay Cemetery.

Why such a fuss for a sex trade worker, one might ask? Why, all these years later, a public appeal to restore her grave?

The answer to this fascinating mystery in next week’s Chronicles.

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PHOTO: Not everyone buried in Ross Bay Cemetery is remembered, so why Edna Farnsworth?