Michael Cline was buried, Feb. 23, 1839, on the home farm in Deerfield Township, Ross County, Ohio. The farm was later sold out of the family and the burial site fell into disrepair. Somehow for a good many years his gravestone (face down), became a slab step at the back door of a neighbor's home and subsequently became broken up into several pieces. At some point in time in the process of replacing the back step, the then owner of the farm discovered the writing on the underside of the broken slab. Reassembling it face up he clearly found it to be a gravestone. A wave of emotion surely came to the man with his discovery, for instead of getting rid of the broken stone, he saw fit to store it in a back shed where it remained for a good many more years. Mrs. Phyllis Trapp Eppard of Iowa, a 3rd great-granddaughter of Michael Kline, visited the area and learned of the gravestone fragments that the present owner had stored away... He helped her reassemble the fragments and she took several photographs.
From Cline family research.
From Cline family research.
Michael Cline was buried, Feb. 23, 1839, on the home farm in Deerfield Township, Ross County, Ohio. The farm was later sold out of the family and the burial site fell into disrepair. Somehow for a good many years his gravestone (face down), became a slab step at the back door of a neighbor's home and subsequently became broken up into several pieces. At some point in time in the process of replacing the back step, the then owner of the farm discovered the writing on the underside of the broken slab. Reassembling it face up he clearly found it to be a gravestone. A wave of emotion surely came to the man with his discovery, for instead of getting rid of the broken stone, he saw fit to store it in a back shed where it remained for a good many more years. Mrs. Phyllis Trapp Eppard of Iowa, a 3rd great-granddaughter of Michael Kline, visited the area and learned of the gravestone fragments that the present owner had stored away... He helped her reassemble the fragments and she took several photographs.
From Cline family research.
From Cline family research.
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