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Myron Leroy Stone

Birth	:	23 Apr 1872
Death	:	1949
Burial	:	Dale Cemetery, Emmons County, USA
Coordinate	:	45.9874992, -100.3768997
Description	:	Myron Leroy STONE ..Cedar Rapids, IA Republican and Times 08APR1922(Also Dubuque IA Telegraph-Herald): "..Myron STONE who lives near Fox Cave five miles north of Edgewood (IA) quarried a petrified human body from the cave one day last week. It was embedded in one of the rocky galleries of the cave, but for some reason or other the head was missing. Presumably it was not submerged with the rest of the body and exposed to the air caused it to decay. Scientists are of the opinion that petrification takes about 50,000 years, so that this body must have been... Read More	Myron Leroy STONE ..Cedar Rapids, IA Republican and Times 08APR1922(Also Dubuque IA Telegraph-Herald): "..Myron STONE who lives near Fox Cave five miles north of Edgewood (IA) quarried a petrified human body from the cave one day last week. It was embedded in one of the rocky galleries of the cave, but for some reason or other the head was missing. Presumably it was not submerged with the rest of the body and exposed to the air caused it to decay. Scientists are of the opinion that petrification takes about 50,000 years, so that this body must have been imbedded in the mud and water of Clayton County more than 45,000 years before the pyramids of Egypt were constructed … This cave … deep and dark with winding passages. At one end of it is a spring of good water and at the end of another is a natural well which is about ten feet in diameter and fifty feet deep …" Spirit Lake IA Beacon 04MAY1922: "Myron STONE owns a curiousity in the shape of a petrified human body which he quarried from the Fox Cave .. the relic of prehistoric ages was imbedded face downward in one of the rocky galleries of the cave. The head is missing .. the feet were broken off to remove the body from its rocky bed. The front half of the body was also destroyed by (being) thoroughly embedded and attached to the native rock. Where it is cut away from the embedded half the outlines of bones and some of the internal organs can plainly be seen. The outline of the spinal column, and the convolutions of the muscles are as natural as life …"

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Latitude: 45.9874992
Longitude: -100.3768997

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Cynthia E. Bacon Stone

(1872 - 1944)

Siblings

William Stone

(1855 - 1879)

Herbert A Stone

(1856 - 1941)

Alexander Jackson Stone

(1859 - 1946)

Jesse Andrew Stone

(1862 - 1955)

Ella A Stone Smith

(1866 - 1950)

Eva Mae Stone Bacon

(1875 - 1957)

Children

Florence L Stone Brown Stephens

(1892 - 1977)

Lena C Stone Noble

(1897 - 1990)

Angeline L “Angie” Stone Marolf

(1909 - 1996)

(unknow - unknow)

Flowers:

Left by Anonymous on 18 May 2018

Left by Anonymous on 03 Jul 2020

Nearby Cemetories:

1. Dale Cemetery
Emmons County, USA
Coordinate: 45.9874992, -100.3768997

2. Spring Valley Cemetery
Pollock, Campbell County, USA
Coordinate: 45.9308500, -100.2960000

3. LaGrace Cemetery
Campbell County, USA
Coordinate: 45.8800011, -100.3719025

4. Holy Trinity Krassna Cemetery
Strasburg, Emmons County, USA
Coordinate: 46.0883751, -100.2978897

5. Westfield Cemetery
Westfield, Emmons County, USA
Coordinate: 46.0279660, -100.2050860

6. Saint Thomas Cemetery
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Coordinate: 45.8506012, -100.4036026

7. Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Cem
Kenel, Corson County, USA
Coordinate: 45.8521000, -100.4588000

8. Saint Bernard Catholic Cemetery
Emmons County, USA
Coordinate: 46.1390230, -100.4501700

9. Hull Cemetery
Hull, Emmons County, USA
Coordinate: 46.0289001, -100.1489029

10. Spring Creek Cemetery
Pollock, Campbell County, USA
Coordinate: 45.9131000, -100.1516600

11. Saint Lukes Cemetery
Bullhead, Corson County, USA
Coordinate: 45.8053017, -100.4794006

12. Sitting Bull Burial Site
Fort Yates, Sioux County, USA
Coordinate: 46.0893490, -100.6340630

13. Gale Cemetery
Pollock, Campbell County, USA
Coordinate: 45.7971992, -100.2652969

14. Worms Lutheran Cemetery
Emmons County, USA
Coordinate: 46.1675440, -100.5249220

15. Saint Peters Catholic Church Cemetery
Fort Yates, Sioux County, USA
Coordinate: 46.0960465, -100.6340156

16. Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery
Strasburg, Emmons County, USA
Coordinate: 46.1373825, -100.1636658

17. Reed Cemetery
Fort Yates, Sioux County, USA
Coordinate: 46.0731010, -100.6549988

18. Pilgrim Home Cemetery
Strasburg, Emmons County, USA
Coordinate: 46.1310997, -100.1496964

19. Word of God Cemetery
Fort Yates, Sioux County, USA
Coordinate: 46.0876140, -100.6558780

20. Fort Yates Post Cemetery (Defunct)
Fort Yates, Sioux County, USA
Coordinate: 46.0854010, -100.6749550

21. Hope Lutheran Cemetery
Corson County, USA
Coordinate: 45.8752382, -100.6667583

22. Tiraspol Cemetery
Strasburg, Emmons County, USA
Coordinate: 46.1588780, -100.1484920

23. Saint Lukes Cemetery
Fort Yates, Sioux County, USA
Coordinate: 46.1377983, -100.6455994

24. Kvernes Cemetery
Pollock, Campbell County, USA
Coordinate: 45.7616997, -100.2544022