Davis Blount knew the project he'd do to make Eagle Scout had to mean something; something to someone; something to a community.

The one he chose to help others - hit close to home, too.

"Davis had really wanted to do something in memory of his brother," said Janet Blount, Davis's mother.

The 16 year-old Riverside High School student never got the chance to meet that older brother of his, John Byron. His mom and dad only got to spend little time with him, too.

John Byron had died in the womb before he was born in 1990.

"There are some people who just want to forget the past but I know that our family tries to remember John Byron as much as we can," Davis said.

So for his project - he wanted to take memory boxes to nearby Durham Regional Hospital so women could have something to hold on to. In those boxes, nurses can put mementos like a bear and a record of the child's birth.

"From what I hear from my mom - you feel very alone and very confused," Davis said. "Just having something to take home is a good way to remember the baby."

Janet and her husband Eddie knew they were going to have a boy. The nursery was painted. His car seat was in place when they left for the hospital on an October day 19 years ago.

"The hardest thing for me was driving away from the hospital with empty arms," she said.

Davis' parents pushed for him to complete a few dozen boxes.

"We wanted him to pitch the idea of 25 to 50 boxes and he boldly stated he was going to give a hundred boxes," she said.

So Davis rallied relatives, church family and the Durham Jaycees. Turns out more than a hundred people helped the high schooler paint the boxes and put white islet on them.

Nurses at Durham Regional had tears in their eyes when the Blount family delivered those hundred boxes Tuesday.

"It's not that we're trying to forget what happened but it's that we're trying to remember that there was a little person that this represents," said Bonnie Smith, director of The Silent Birth program at Durham Regional that helps families get through the difficult time of losing a child.

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