Hi Kaye, That was my first impression...that it was a memorial stone but the death dates are way off and the birthdates are so close that they couldn't be parents or grandparents of my Patrick and Hannah. So the search is on. In 1870 Hannah is listed as Patrick's widow and the previous census had them in Massachusetts. However, their youngest son was born in 1861 in Vermont so I'm heading there...online...to see if I can verify his death. Then it's back to Detroit to get verification of Hannah's death in or around 1893. Wish me luck. Chris kaye vernon <kjvernon@bigpond.net.au> wrote: I am not 100% sure, but I believe that in Ireland there are instances where they put the death details on the headstone sometimes where people have died elsewhere.