Legacy Matters

"I've never seen anything like it. Ever. In 25 years of business."

How did gravestones become a walkway at an Ann Arbor home?

Workers were uncovering a sewer line when they discover that the nine granite paving stones were gravestones.

"I've never seen anything like it," Knight said. "Ever. In 25 years in business."  But where could they possibly have come from, and how did they wind up reincarnated as a walkway at a Westfield Avenue colonial?

The brand-new homeowners were dismayed.

But a little publicity solved the mystery.  The former homeowners had a relative in the monument business.    Every one of the 1x 2 foot granite slabs had typos, misspellings or miscuts.  Everyone was a cast off; they were never used as gravestones.