A Hyde Park, Utah, woman renovating her basement found a surprise when she tore down a shower wall in her home – a gravestone dated from 1900. Miriam Gunn said the gravestone says it is that of 13-year-old Earl Stephen Balls. Curious how it got into the home, Gunn’s husband called the previous owners of the house. Turns out the previous owner’s 15-year-old son was finishing construction on the basement in the 1970s when he remembered a broken gravestone that was near an old cabin in the backyard. He decided it might be funny to seal up the stone inside the wall for someone to find later. Earl Balls is buried at the nearby Hyde Park Cemetery and his grave bears a newer, more modern stone.
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