VINTON, Va. (WDBJ) - A local retired fire fighter is using his free time to restore gravesites across the Roanoke Valley.

He’s getting ready to do one of his biggest projects, the restoration of a 150-year-old headstone that belonged to a baby girl.

WDBJ7’s Kaira Willis has the story and uncovers the history of this girl’s family.

Baby Annie Booth, known on her headstone as “Little Jennie” was two years old when she died in 1874.

Her family owned part of the farmland that is now the Mountain View Cemetery in Vinton, where she is laid to rest.

Annie’s gravesite is the oldest in the cemetery.

“This whole place was farmland, there was Booths, there was Bush, there was the Jeters. And I’m not even sure of all the different names, but this was a baby who died on the farm, and she was buri

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