Young girl laid again to rest, 145 years after her first...

Five men in black suits lifted a small, cherry-wood casket out of the back of a hearse Saturday morning on a fog-covered hill at Colma’s Greenlawn Memorial Park.

They carried the casket through a line of Knights of Columbus members dressed in full regalia and over to the young girl’s final resting place, which was covered in flowers and surrounded by nearly 100 onlookers.

The mood was somber, yet joyful. A Trumpeter’s Lullaby played quietly on surrounding speakers. A woman wept. A child next to her reached out and smiled.

The group of community members, Odd Fellows, cemetery workers and event organizers gathered for the 10 a.m. memorial service and reburial of the girl dubbed Miranda Eve, a three-year-old whose casket was found beneath the floor of a home in San Francisco Richmond District after being buried for about 145 years.

“I rejoice that you’ve found it in your hearts to come offer your love, your care and to be here for this little girl,” retired Minister Allan Musterer told the crowd during the ceremony. “The discovery of Miranda is such a happening outside of what anyone could deem as normal.”

The girl was found last month in a small metal casket with glass windows during home construction. It’s airtight seal preserved everything inside, from the girl’s golden locks of hair down to the rose she held in her hand.

The girl, given the name Miranda by homeowner Ericka Karner’s family, was one of about 30,000 people originally buried in San Francisco’s Odd Fellow’s Cemetery, but she was accidentally left behind when the bodies were cleared out and moved to cemeteries in Colma in the early 20th century to make room for the living.

Event organizers decided to bury the little girl in Colma to be close to the others — and potential family members — that were moved to the common burial plot there around 1920.

Since the girl was discovered and her story shared, hundreds of people have reached out to show support.

Ellisa Davey, the founder of the Garden of Innocence charity, who for two decades has buried the bodies of unidentified children in California, got in touch with the homeowner soon after her discovery and arranged for the girl’s reburial.

Organizations across California were eager to help make Miranda Eve’s second burial a possibility — everything from a casket to the burial plot were donated.

“It was tough, very tough,” Davey said about the process, as her voice cracked and she began to cry. “But she is not just our child. She is everyone’s.”

Saturday morning’s ceremony was a full-service memorial, packed with people in black clothes, countless baskets of rose petals, a volunteer minister and even a local poet who read an original work to honor the little girl.

“There is not one moment that is not blessed. The wind we feel, we hear, but cannot see. A California sister comes to rest,” said Kevin Fisher-Paulson, reading from a poem he wrote for the ceremony.

Barbara and Heather Reynolds, a mother and daughter from Sacramento, attended the ceremony to show their support and see off the little girl.

“I just felt that she needed to have people here,” Heather Reynolds said. “The amount of people who came forward is amazing.”

Barbara Reynolds agreed and said she was also intrigued by the unique situation and history of Miranda.

“I can’t believe she was preserved after over 140 years,” Barbara Reynolds said. “It says a lot about that time period.”

The glass panels in the girl’s original coffin were broken during inspection by the city’s medical examiner, so that casket was placed inside a new casket for Saturday’s burial.

People from all over the country have spent countless hours over the past few weeks since the girl’s discovery trying to find the girl’s true identity. Her DNA was even sent away for testing.

For now, the girl’s headstone will be etched with the name Miranda Eve, with the opposing side left blank just in case of a future discovery, Davey said.

As the ceremony wound down, and the girl’s coffin was lowered into the ground, the crowd tossed rose petals onto the grave as a final farewell.

Miranda Eve is the 328th child her organization has buried, Davey said.

“We do this because we feel it is truly the right thing to do,” she added. “It’s never for the pat on the back, but to really be there for the child.”

Kevin Schultz is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: kschultz@sfchronicle.com Twitter: kevinedschultz