Ok lets update with another puzzle/detail of history written down......

"Own's Barber Hone, Made of Hickory, 200 years Old"
Seven Valleys, Aug. 27 - H.L. Shive, local merchant, has an old barber's hone, used to sharpen razors, which has been in the Shive family for over 200 years. It is made of Hickory Wood, is about eight inches long and the black part of the hone is presumed to be a bark of the wood. In olden times, people would petrify wood by placing it in a hollow place in the ground, to make stones for putting edges on tools. The stone was at one time possessed by Luther Shive, known as Ludwig Shive, who died in 1740. He was the great grandfather of the owner......

Taken from: The Gazette and Daily (York, Pennsylvania) / 28th August 1934

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