Several weeks ago, one of my colleagues asked if anyone had ever “ask-vanced” me about the headstone in the woods at Shelby Farms that marks the grave of Robert and Mary Mann, who died in the 1890s. It was, she said, along a trail that runs close to an old barn that is falling to pieces and — another surprise — a couple of abandoned cars from the 1950s.
The truth is that in recent months, I have actually received several inquiries about this mysterious tombstone …
Vance Lauderdale, Memphis magazine’s own historic anomaly, has more, here.
