Hellen Honeycutt, born to Judson and Margaret Honeycutt. Died February 11, 1913 per her death certificate, age 10 mo. This would place her birth in April of 1912. Her death certificate shows she died of accidental suffocation caused by turning her head into her bedding.

Hellen was the fifth child of Judson and Margaret, following her oldest two sisters Eva (b1904) and Juanita (b1906) and oldest two brothers Oscar (b1908) and Allison (b1910). Following her death, her parents had another five children: Paul (b1914), Knowlton (b1916), Bernice (b1917), Freeda (b1919), and Thelma (b1920). Of the remaining 9 children, 8 survived to adulthood. Thelma also died as an infant.

Hellen's tragedy doesn't end with her death. It continues well into the decades after she was gone and buried. Her resting place was unfortunately in Whittier's Broadway Cemetery. Broadway was allowed to fall into disrepair along with its sister cemetery, Mt. Olive, which was across the street. These two cemeteries were declared a nuisance by the city of Whittier in the 1950's and rather than repairing them and bringing them back into proper use, someone on the city council had the "bright idea" to turn them into a park.

Rather than moving ALL of the remains, they decided to contact family members and if family didn't respond, they simply removed the headstone and left the remains under the park. Tons of topsoil was dumped onto the uneven ground, the pathways were kept where they originally were, and plaques were installed as a "remembrance" to those who were once interred under the park, or who remained there. The coffins remain under Founder's Memorial Park, as it is now dubbed, with Hellen and her grandfather and at least two other family members still resting uneasily underfoot.

It is unknown how many remains still lay within the soil under this park. The City of Whittier has a lot of explaining to do for those of us whose family members they allowed to be relegated to unmarked graves to be trampled like so much rubbish.