It just didn’t seem right that a tombstone was propped up in front of an antique store in Mayer, Arizona. That’s what a casual shopper felt, getting more uneasy when she saw that it was engraved with the 1857 birth and 1909 death of one M.J. Brady. Most people would have clucked or sighed or thought, “What a shame,” and gone on, but this woman knew where she could turn to for help.  She called the Pioneers’ Cemetery Association in Phoenix. The group, which first began in 1938,


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