Friday, May 19, 2006

The mystery of mom's second headstone

This is weird.

In Flint, Michigan a woman named Sarabeth Eason found a tombstone near some abandoned homes in her neighborhood. Local cemetaries had no record of the name on the stone, and it was a mystery until Carl Shopieray read about the find, and recognized the name and the dates as his mother's.

Carl's mother had been buried 70 miles away in Standish. Why had someone taken the stone and why had they dumped it so far away? Carl went to Standish to assess the damage to the grave, and was shocked to find it completely intact - headstone and all.

Now, both headstones were inscribed "Mother Nora Little 1894-1929" so this isn't like finding a headstone with "John Smith" - there seems very little chance of coincidental duplication here, but it must have happened. Whose headstone was found?

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