Samaria, ID

In 1878, Ben Waldron, a farmer in Samaria, mangled his leg while working with a horse-powered thresher. Waldron lost a lot of blood by the time he was hauled to doctors in Logan, who amputated his leg. After the operation, Ben asked that the leg be buried in Samaria Cemetery.

The burial plot for the leg was marked with its own tombstone on the east side of the Samaria Cemetery -- it bears the engraving of a leg with the inscription "B.W. October 30, 1878." When Waldron died in 1914, he was buried on the the other side of the cemetery.

There's strange story/legend about the leg: After it was in the ground, the convalescing Waldron griped about continuing pain, and insisted his leg had been buried in a twisted position. He must have howled enough about it that the leg was finally exhumed. Sure enough, it was in a funny position, so it was adjusted and reburied. Waldron led a successful, mostly pain-free life for another 36 years.