BUTTE — What would you do if a tombstone suddenly appeared in your neighborhood?

Well, it happened to a woman on Sept. 13th in the dogtown neighborhood near the Taravonia Headframe in Butte.

She has since been on a quest to find the family members of the person memorialized on the tombstone.

"It was quite a mystery initially," says Allison Andersen, a community leader who has been working to clean up lots in her neighborhood for the past decade.

"Last week, I noticed this stranger who just happened upon the lot. Found (the tombstone) and placed it here with honor. I mean, he put flowers on it. He left stones on it. He laid in front of it for a little bit."

Andersen has lived in her neighborhood for 27 years. She says she was shocked by the appearance of the tombstone because she didn’

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