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Headstones turned up at a demolished furniture store in a town once known for having no cemetery. At 110 N. Walnut Street in Tomball, crews found what appeared to be early-1900s grave markers, according to the Tomball Times. It was the sort of discovery that could make anyone wonder whether a forgotten burial ground lay beneath an ordinary storefront.
But the same report says an independent archaeological investigation, paid for by the property owner, found no evidence of a cemetery on the site. The likely explanation was more mundane and just as curious: rejected or discarded headstones had been reused as construction material. A marker found in a building, in other words, need not mean someone was buried there. Where did these particular stones originally come from?
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