Hyde Park woman finds gravestone behind shower wall

Hyde Park • A woman renovating her basement found a surprise when she tore down a shower wall in her home: A gravestone dated from 1900. The gravestone says it is that of 13-year-old Earl Stephen Balls. Miriam Gunn was curious how it got into her home. 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 house’s backyard. He decided it might be funny to seal up the stone ins...