Grandma was struggling with Alzheimer's, and wasn’t able to
live on her own anymore. Her family chose a care center for her, and then went
to work dealing with her house and the things in it that she couldn’t take with
her. A Lansing, Michigan auctioneer was going through her kitchen when he
discovered a large marble slab the family said she’d used to make fudge. He
turned it over and found an engraving: “Peter J. Weller died Dec. 26 1849.” Grandma’s
candy-making marble was someone’s headstone! No one in the family had any idea
where the stone had come from, so they turned to Loretta Stanaway, president of
the Friends of Lansing's Historic Cemeteries. She found that Weller’s headstone
had gone missing when his remains were moved from one cemetery to another in
1875. Last autumn, a memorial service was held when Peter J. Weller and his
headstone were finally reunited after 146 years apart.
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