During the days of the Gold Rush, a young man and his bride set out across the country to make their fortune. Some where along the way they drank some contaminated water, and the young bride died before they could reach Fort Kearney. Heartbroken the young man took her body to the highest hill and buried it, using the wagon bed to make a coffin. He drove down some wooden stakes to mark the grave, thinking that he would go on west and later come back. But as he thought about it, he said to himself, “I’ll forget where this is. I will never remember it.” So he retraced his steps all the way to St. Joseph, Missouri. He found a stone cutter, and had him prepare a tombstone with the name “Susan Hail” on it, along with the date of her death. He tried vainly to get someone to haul it back for him, …