Those State Street Bones

The Aun Arbor correspondent of the Detroit Tribune has tliis solution of the mystery of the remains uneartbed wliile diggiDg tlie sewer trench on S. State street . "ïhe bones are supposed to be those of a member of the farnily of John Mundy, who lived near the corner of Williams and State streets about 50 years ago, when the university consisted of two dormitorios and a flag staff. State street was in a big wheat field then, and as it was the custom to bury the dead in the front yards in those days, the recently discovered skeleton is thought to be tliat of one of the Mundys i who, at that time, lived in the inimediate neigjiborhood. None of the family are alive now to corrobórate the statement, hut soine of the okler townspeople advance it as a solutiou." The above is no doubt the correct solution, though State street bas been a street almost ever since Ann Arbor has been a habitation, and these remains were in the street. When the writer of this first carne to Ann Arbor in 1859, there stood near the corner of S. State and E. Williams streets a curious house. At least, it looked curious to lus boyisli eyes. It was a story and a half brick, built in the shape of a capital Y, with the doublé end fronting State street. It then belonged to "Judge Mundy," as he was called, a man well along in years, and the last of bis faniily. He died soon after, and the house caught fire and was partially destro}'ed. It remained in a dilapidated condition for some time, when finally it passed into other hands and was torn down. The Mundy family was very prominent here in an early day, but there is not a member of the family, or a descendent thereof, known to be left in this vicinity now. The oíd Y house was once an aristocratie mansión, but has so soon passed from memory, almost. So moves the world along.