Towns, cities, and states have their own myths and legends. Davenport Iowa has one that many don't even know about.

One of the most persistent local legends in Davenport centers on Oakdale Cemetery on Eastern Avenue. In this cemetery is a special section where children from the Iowa Solders’ Orphans’ Home

Apparently, if you go there on Halloween night you can hear the cries, but there is another legend in that graveyard that has baffled people for years.

Inside the Iowa Solders' Orphans section there is a headstone found at the end of a very long row in Oakdale Memorial Gardens. The headstone reads:

“Limb of Unknown Child”

Jake Truemper Townsquare media
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There is very little known about this grave and some conflicting information that just makes this stranger. The limb is thought to be a boy’s leg.

When I went to the site no one knew for sure where it was rather just giving me vague directions, that lead me off the main path, and onto a dirt one.

Jake Truemper Townsquare media
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According to the Davenport local library,

difference between the information in the interment records and the burial location. The limb is located in section T-E of the Orphans lot. But when the internment records were reviewed, the burial location is listed as T-F, or the next row up from T-E.*

Many have searched through countless newspaper records with nothing found or mentioned. No cause of death has ever been discussed. The biggest question is "Why."

Why Name it this?

Why bury a limb?

Why no date?

Why is so little known about this?

These are questions we will be asking for a long time that may never be discovered, but this remains an iconic local legend and mystery to ghost hunters in Davenport and Iowa as a whole.

There is also another grave only a few feet away called "Baby Boy Fear." Just another strange name in a tragic place.

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