Okay, this is kinda weird and freaky...
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silversolitaireDuplicate tombstone deepens weird mystery
Thursday, May 18, 2006
By Bryn Mickle
FLINT - There's an extra tombstone for Carl Schopieray's mother and lots of questions.
For instance, how did her headstone wind up in a Flint yard? Where did it come from? And, most mysteriously, why is there a second tombstone?
Schopieray, 81, of Flint Township made a rather unsettling discovery on Mother's Day after reading a Flint Journal article about a mysterious headstone dumped in Flint. No one knew whom it belonged to or how it got there.
But Schopieray immediately recognized the name of Nora Little on the marker.
"That's my mother," he said.
Schopieray wondered how his mother's tombstone made the 70-mile journey from a Standish cemetery to an abandoned house on Poplar Street in Flint.
But that was only the start of the mystery.
He went to the Flint Police Department to see the stone in person and said it looked exactly like the one on his mother's grave - a rectangular marble headstone that reads "Mother Nora Little 1894-1929."
He headed to his mother's resting spot at Woodmere Cemetery in Standish on Wednesday morning expecting to find an empty spot over her grave.
Instead, he found her tombstone - exactly where it was supposed to be.
Schopieray was stunned.
"They look exactly the same. I can't figure it out," he said.
So whose gravestone is sitting at the Flint Police Department?
The Genesee County clerk's office has no death record on file for a Nora Little with the same birth and death dates as Schopieray's mother, and a check of area cemeteries hasn't turned up anything.
One of the owners of Marsh Monument in Burton said the stone could be a fictitious marker that a company had made for a display but was stolen.
"It's kind of odd," said Gary Marsh.
Poplar Street resident Sarabeth Eason said she hopes someone will come forward with some answers.
Eason and her neighbors found the stone a few weeks ago and want to see it returned to its proper resting spot.
She had hoped the mystery was solved when Schopieray called her this week.
"That is amazing," she said of the doppelganger gravestones.
"Sometimes the universe works in amazing ways."
Thursday, May 18, 2006
By Bryn Mickle
FLINT - There's an extra tombstone for Carl Schopieray's mother and lots of questions.
For instance, how did her headstone wind up in a Flint yard? Where did it come from? And, most mysteriously, why is there a second tombstone?
Schopieray, 81, of Flint Township made a rather unsettling discovery on Mother's Day after reading a Flint Journal article about a mysterious headstone dumped in Flint. No one knew whom it belonged to or how it got there.
But Schopieray immediately recognized the name of Nora Little on the marker.
"That's my mother," he said.
Schopieray wondered how his mother's tombstone made the 70-mile journey from a Standish cemetery to an abandoned house on Poplar Street in Flint.
But that was only the start of the mystery.
He went to the Flint Police Department to see the stone in person and said it looked exactly like the one on his mother's grave - a rectangular marble headstone that reads "Mother Nora Little 1894-1929."
He headed to his mother's resting spot at Woodmere Cemetery in Standish on Wednesday morning expecting to find an empty spot over her grave.
Instead, he found her tombstone - exactly where it was supposed to be.
Schopieray was stunned.
"They look exactly the same. I can't figure it out," he said.
So whose gravestone is sitting at the Flint Police Department?
The Genesee County clerk's office has no death record on file for a Nora Little with the same birth and death dates as Schopieray's mother, and a check of area cemeteries hasn't turned up anything.
One of the owners of Marsh Monument in Burton said the stone could be a fictitious marker that a company had made for a display but was stolen.
"It's kind of odd," said Gary Marsh.
Poplar Street resident Sarabeth Eason said she hopes someone will come forward with some answers.
Eason and her neighbors found the stone a few weeks ago and want to see it returned to its proper resting spot.
She had hoped the mystery was solved when Schopieray called her this week.
"That is amazing," she said of the doppelganger gravestones.
"Sometimes the universe works in amazing ways."
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Date: 2006-05-20 12:30 am (UTC)