(AP) — Restoration of fishponds in Hawaiʻi led to the discovery of a child’s grave from nearly 100 years ago. A nonprofit group has been restoring the fishponds at Honouliuli stream in Ewa Beach. Hawaiʻi News Now reports the group’s founder saw a grave stone hidden in the tall grass earlier this month. He sent photographs to a friend who translated the Japanese inscription. It said a 1-year-old boy named Akira Matsuyama died in June 1927. Through social media, Chance found members of the Matsuyama family who lived on the land in the 1900s.

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