Ada Pinney (Lot 42-74, Block F) nearest marker is Asel Hulett

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Wonderland Amusement park was located at the intersection of Lake Street and 31st Avenue South from 1905-1911.  One of its attractions was an infant incubator hospital that provided medical treatment to prematurely-born infants.  Martin Couney, the man who first exhibited incubators in fairs and amusement parks, claimed an 85% survival rate for these very fragile babies at a time when infant mortality rates for preemies were very high.  Not all of the babies at Wonderland survived, and eleven who did not are buried in this cemetery.  Ada Pinney is one of them.  Ada died on July 27, 1906; she was one and a-half days old.  The park is gone now except for the hospital which is located on the southeast corner of 31st Avenue and 31st Street.

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