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Message:: [QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 47999, member: 78"]Hi,  Other things have happened. I remember when I first got married, they were going to demolish the old farm house I grew up in. I went there looking for something to salvage as a keepsake. Then I remembered there was a block of marble used as a step for the kitchen door. I went and started to pry it up and flipped it over. It was a TOMBSTONE.!!!!! from the 1840s. The last name was still readable as well as the death year but the inscriptions were worn away. I put it in my trunk and wondered why it was where I found it. I cleaned it up and placed on a steel table I had where the glass top broke. My wife was having fits but I used it as a coffee table. After a while the wifey calmed down when spirits did not start to haunt the house. At a reunion several years later I asked about the stone. Found out there was a family cemetery on the next farm and the owners tossed the four or five markers in a dump. My grandfather who hated to see anything go to waste brought one home and used it as a step. It was a shame that a family history was wiped out and the ground plowed. I ended up selling it when I divorced and was moving into a studio apartment.greg[/QUOTE]