After nearly a century and a half, the gravestone of a late Lansing resident has finally found its way home to Mount Hope cemetery.
This story continues to make headlines, with some even picking it up worldwide. All because of where it was found and what it was being used for.
But where has it been all this time? For months that’s the question that has haunted Friends of Lansing’s Historic Cemeteries president, Loretta Stanaway.
In 1875, Lansing city workers moved all of the bodies and headstones from Oak Park cemetery to the new Mount Hope cemetery, but one didn’t make it.
“His, somewhere in the transition, ended up missing,” said Stanaway.
It remains a mystery where the headstone was all this time, but one Okemos family somehow came upon it and have been using it for years to make a familiar sweet treat for the holiday season—fudge.