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Identical tombstone turns up unexplained

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FLINT, Mich., May 18 (UPI) -- Carl Schopieray of Flint Township, Mich., could not imagine how his mother's gravestone might have been moved 70 miles until he found out there were two.

Schopieray, 81, read in a Flint Journal article about a mysterious tombstone with his mother's name on it discovered in an abandoned house more than an hour away. Baffled, he went to the Flint Police Department to see the stone for himself.

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That stone looked identical to the one on his mother's grave at Woodmere Cemetery in Standish. Mich. It had the same inscription -- "Mother Nora Little 1894-1929" -- the Flint Journal reported.

"They look exactly the same. I can't figure it out," he said.

An owner of Marsh Monument suggested the other stone might have been made for a display and then stolen.

The neighbors who found the stone wanted to put it back in its rightful spot. No one else named Nora Little was listed in the other county's death records, so the mystery remains unsolved.

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