Mount Hope Cemetery tree topples — and reveals a hidden grave

Tom Jones was out wandering Mount Hope Cemetery picking up sticks and branches during a recent windstorm when he said he discovered something among the roots of a freshly fallen tree.

It was the gravestone of Edna Goodman, who was born in 1892 and died in 1918. The ground around it had formed a mound that almost completely consumed the gravestone.

“The wind was twisting all sorts of different directions,” said Jones, a volunteer with the nonprofit Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery…

Story continues

TRENDING NOW

LATEST LOCAL NEWS