Cemetery director opens vault of man whom family says is not buried in right spot | WSB-TV
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- The family claims that a northwest Atlanta cemetery moved the body of a family member to make room for another gravesite. Read more: 2wsb.tv/2eVm1gj
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This actually does happen I’m living proof of it. My dad was murdered when I was six months old when my grandma went to go pick up the stuff that was left at the grave the day of his funeral she noticed that his grave had never been dug but she noticed somewhere else there was a grave that was freshly made after arguing with the funeral home she ended up getting a lawyer eventually they didn’t want to cause a court case about it so they took it out to prove her wrong only my grandma was right they buried my dad in the wrong spot. He is now in the correct place or he has been resting for 30 years
Srry for your dad!
I am so sorry your father was murdered and then buried in the wrong grave.
When the family is proven wrong, they should have to pay the expenses for digging that grave up.
They do anyway
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IN A SMALL Tennessee TOWN, A FUNERAL HOME WAS CAUGHT BURYING GARBAGE WITH DEAD PEOPLE THEY HAD BURIED, NOT ONLY THAT SOME WERE REMOVED FROM THE EXPENSIVE CASKET AND REPLACED WITH A PLASTIC BAG WHEN THEY DUG THEM UP AT NIGHT AND SOME WERE JUST THROWN IN AND COVERED UP, THE MAN WHO OWNED THE FUNERAL HOME AND DID THESE THINGS WAS A COUNTY ALDERMAN AND HIS FAMILY HAD A LOT OF POWER,HE WAS SENT TO PRISON AND AFTER FEW YEARS HE WAS MADE A TRUSTEE AND PUT IN CHARGE OF BABYSITTING INMATES KIDS WHEN FAMILY COME FOR VISIT AND THEY CAUGHT DIRTY BASTARD MOLESTING KIDS, BUT TO SHOW WHAT HAVING MONEY IN TENNESSEE WILL DO HE WAS SET FREE AFTER ALL THE BAD THINGS HE DID, HIS BUDDY WHO RAPED AN UNDERAGE GIRL WHO SUFFERED FROM MENTAL PROBLEMS AND WAS A STUDENT OF HIS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL HE WORKED AT WAS MADE A CITY ALDERMAN AND NOW HE IS VICE MAYOR AND HE NEVER SERVED A MINUTE IN JAIL FOR RAPING HIS STUDENT,IT SHOWS HOW CORRUPT PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND COPS ARE IN TENNESSEE,EXCUSE THE CAPS,
@@andytn3452 oh ! My Gawd !!!!!!****
Roger smith you sound like a white crybaby
At my grandpa's wake, they gotten the bodies mixed up. Instead of my grandpa, it was another man. What was really crazy was that my family knew the man who passed away and contacted his family. When we told them that he wasn't my grandpa, they didn't believe us. My family continued to say "we knows what he looks like and this isn't him". They tried to say it was makeup making him look different. Come to find out, we were correct. After a couple hours they finally came out with my grandpa. The other man family wasn't supposed to viewing him until 3 days later. Let's talk about a horrific day. R.I.P Grandpa I love and miss you bestfriend! ❤️🙏🏽
Kristal C wow that is just crazy that they would even try to argue with your family as if they would know better than family that has known and seen him their whole lives!!! man stupid people drive me absolutely crazy lol I can't even deal with stupid anymore I'm so sick of it but anyway. I am sorry you guys had to go through that
OG Hopper I completely agree!!! I understand they drive me absolutely crazy too, I just don't understand how they even got all mixed up! Thank you so much I appreciate it a lot.
Kristal C Wow !! That's crazy ..!!
Kristal C I’m so sorry you had to go through all that. Your poor family must have been devastated. I pray you find comfort and peace knowing that you were all together looking out for grandpa and found the error. This avoided the other family having grief too in a few days. Makes me think how many people who have no one looking out for them end up in the wrong arrangements. God forbid being cremated or buried incorrectly. It has got to be so upsetting. Rest now my child and know that grandpa is in heaven right where he needs and should be smiling down upon you forever and ever. God bless....
I am so sorry. If this had happened at my grandmas funeral I would have lost it. I was already on edge and wow.. i'm so sorry. How traumatizing :/
What a grave situation..I'll keep digging until I get to the bottom of this..
wiseman 1965 L
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I'll keep digging until I get to the bottom of this 😄
wiseman 1965 😂😂😂😂😂😂. You’re banned from the comment section
aboctok you’re banned too 😂😂😂
For everyone wondering what the outcome of the story is...the family was DEAD wrong. Haha but seriously, I hope they are embarrassed by their ridiculous accusations and the way they acted. If I was the father I would be rolling around in my casket down there.
So is this true
they needed peace. it was a seruous concern right ot wrong
stupid ppl daughter
I wouldnt give a fuxk if they done it to me as i would be dead
@@chrispkmcm5746 when you came out of pocket and paid or they made sure they used every dime of the burial policy that you have, oh you will care. The location is important, so others know where to visit family. Where my Grandmother is buried the cemetery has been on the news for the entire place being not cared for and maintained. My Daddy use to take his lawn mower out there and cut the grass. I made sure we buried him in a national cemetery to avoid the bs that happen in many cemeteries. It's what he wanted.
My little brother died in 1975 so my parents bought two other plots as well so they would be together (my brothers was the one on the right), then my little sister died 2 months later, so they decided that when they died, to be buried together in double deep grave. We couldn't understand then, why they dug my sisters grave double deep, that wasn't until my dad was dying and my mum & I went to start the arrangements for my dads burial, we found out that my brother was not in the grave that had been purchased, he was in the one to the right that wasn't one of the ones my parents had paid for, so they were given that one & got to keep the other 3, otherwise they could have been sued (seeing we had been visiting, &, putting flowers on a grave that was empty for all of those years), plus, they would have had to exhume my brother which would have cost them a lot too. No matter what the job, people can make mistakes, even heartbreaking ones.
but why was the sisters dug double deep?
@@adamcrum8396 so that one of the parents could be buried in the same spot and they wouldn’t be separated is my guess.
Man, you and your family suffered alot of tragedy in a short time. God bless you and may they all be waiting to greet you in heaven someday.
You can tell she’s been a mess her whole damn life
Bingo.
Can tell you have been too for making such judgemental comment.
She does fr!
@@erikmanguslehnsherr4389 bless your heart
Sounded like a ceackhead
It is more common than the public knows. As a former cemetery manager, I left my position after I heard the unethical orders from the owners of the cemetery to move children's graves from decades ago since family does not visit anymore to make room for new plots. He even demanded in orders for me to do Muitiple graves in one. I was totally disgusted and left my position immediately with reporting to police and news channels back then to expose these crimes without morals from the owners. The sad thing is, these owners owned two cemeteries in New Orleans Louisiana and one in Tampa, Florida back then. No clue what they own today.
OMG
This is why I want to be buried on a family plot or cremated. Makes me sad how even death his capitalized and shady people will cut any corners they can to save a buck.
@@Shaweweweeewah but you still risk having your ashes mixed up with someone else's . we've heard of this before
B.s.
who cares old graves in London have been dug up and moved for centuries. How else do you think a city that is over 2,000 years old can keep burying its dead ?
One guy showed me where my grandmother was laid to rest.
A year later another guy showed me different spot!!!
A head stone was placed at the second spot!! I protested to no avail ! 😔😔😔
I will never go back again !!!
But I know she is resting in Jesus !! 😇✌👏👋🙏
If you have peace 🕊️✌️ all that matters ‼️I haven't been back 🔙 to my nana grave she always said give me flower 🌺 while im alive ‼️ not 🚫 Dead. And if never visit it's ok especially if you treated them awesome 😎 while they were living 🤷‼️ just my opinion ‼️
Wow. The owner sounds like a stand up respectful, honest guy. Has that calm demeaner only someone dealing with grieving or hysterical loved ones can have. God Bless him because you know his stress level wass an 11 on a scale from 1-10. Trying to calm this woman down while she screaming and twlling news people they are burying people on top of people and moving graves around. Good grief. Yep. Any body in the business of funeral care deserves an award.
Several of my relatives are insisting that this same thing happened with my Grandmothers grave. I know for a fact it hasn't. She is buried next to my Grandfather. Her headstone was already in place before her death. In my cousins eyes for some reason they believe that when my Grandmother died they dug my Grandfather up and buried the both of them in a different part of the cemetery for some crazy, evil reason. I have photos of the grave BEFORE she died. I have documents showing what plot her and her husband purchased many years ago before their deaths. I have showed this to my cousins and they still don't believe it. These people have only been to that cemetery 2-3 times and I have been there countless times. Some people, when a idea gets planted in their heads they just don't believe anything else and nothing will convince them otherwise.
Family can be crazy.
This is so true, I just said the same thing. Just stumbled on this story, looking for something else. Once people have an idea, they will never be satisfied. She will never rest until that grave is dug up. You don't see things right on the day someone dies because you are so stressed out. But being human, you think you are right, when often you are completely wrong.
"I don't care if we gotta dig 'em back up". 😂😂😂😂😂
Bassin' with Buzz , I know, 😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah I was dying when I heard that
Bassin' with Buzz the truth is she really wanted to see her dad's rotting corpse.
She remembered that she left a ring on his finger that she wanted. Lol j/k. RIP sir.
Sweet bass Buzz
10 years ago there was a black mortuary that was caught in Atlanta selling the same caskets and vaults and grave sites The family would watch their loved one go into the ground .And then they would remove it and do it all over again .The sick part was they were putting the bodies in a concrete storage and they were piled up on top of each other .The police said it would take years to identify who the bones belonged too .Last I heard some of the family members went to jail . Not sure if they stayed in business .But when family members came to visit the graves of their loved one just like this lady they complained about the same thing .Then the police asked everyone on tv if they had a loved one one buried there to come down and see if their loved one was where they were suppose to be and the rest was history .
Remember that in Atlanta?
Bodies piled like wood all over.
Even put some in the pond.
Hundreds of Corpses left to rot in the open.
That mortuary got 6 nm months in jail? Disgusting, trifling MFers
i would think 30 unrelated people paying respects at the same gravesite might clue a few in...
I worked in a cemetery for about 11 years. When you have the set up and what I mean by that is the tent and greens they put down things look different. With people grieving things look different. I am not saying mistakes are not made but at our cemetery we went through great lengths to make sure people were laid to rest correctly.
You’d be surprised how many don’t and this happens all the time people are moved or buried ontop of others I’ve seen a few stories
I also worked as a cemetery groundskeeper. All checks and balances were in place before the grave was dug by having family come out and be satisfied with the location. Now as a retired FD/ Embalmer the same holds true after 40 plus years. Most cemeteries have an excellent track record.
The family is 100% mistaken. Loud and newsy too.
As someone who works at a cemetery as well; Sometimes the grave that was dug is too unsafe to be set up (eg, cave-ins and unstable ground), so a false setup is placed nearby. After the funeral, the casket/crypt is lowered into the original grave.
She was proven wrong. They should have pushed her and that factory wig in the vault for her stage preformance.
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So what was the outcome. No sense posting unless the outcome is as well.
Jude Southern Ontario He was in the same spot - the family screwed up
@@roadweary5252 Wow! She was pretty adamant wasn't she. I wonder if she'll apologise.
@@kernow9324 i doubt it
Just another attention / moneygrab attempt. Move along please. There is honestly nothing to see here.
Lil nephew cut grass their and family was wrong and offered no aplologies. Typical Goodreads ruining successful black people's reputation
My uncle before he passed away from lung cancer in 1989 he said he didn't trust funeral directors or cemetery people. That he want someone to wait until he is in his casket and vault placed in the ground. I've been the last person to leave the cemetery of each of my family members internment. That was 1989 the last burial was my youngest Sister that died from breast cancer. And I can tell you the cemetery workers tried to make me leave only once...I found it unsual....and I stayed 1/12 hours for them to bury my sister....and I wasn't leaving and didn't leave until her casket was lowered and she was buried. I later found out that cemetery workers was arrested for grave robbing. Someone of the family needs to stay until the end and your loved one is properly buried.
U know she's looking for a handout and a check.
I have always taken flowers to my parents and my Great Nephew's grave. My Nephew and his wife bought the plots on each side of of their baby. I went out to put flowers out and seen that a person was buried beside him. We contacted the funeral home, they dug up the person and re- buried him. I have not been back since Covid started.
If it's only been about 3 weeks since he was buried, why does the grave site look like it's been a few years since anyone was buried there?
blueknight because its a different spot
So what's the point? They talk about one spot but shows another. That's like talking about the moon and then showing pictures of mars, it doesn't make sense.
I think the girl legitimately forgot where her dad was buried
Mike Minnick if that the case, she'd win Donkey of the day, especially after her yelling at the cemetery official.
U can pack dirt into ground then spread hay or grass seeds. Not hard for a grave to look settled after a couple weeks via artificial means. Plus a gravesite location can be deceiving during a funeral with all the set up. I encourage ppl to go back later that same day. It looks totally different
The cemetery should sue the family.
My mother in law was buried on Monday. The ground was covered with green cloth and my poor husband was worried that his sister was NOT buried next to her. The next day, we went to the cemetery and found indeed she was buried next to her daughter.
Seems like someone was obviously & rightfully upset over the death of their family member & stemming from this upset they were confused by the actual location of the grave & they freaked out & overreacted. Now they probably realize they are wrong but they have made such a big deal out of it that they have to keep going with this absurd accusation.
I think the family was trying to get a pay paid, but when the funeral home was like, "yeah we'll dig your daddy up and show you we didn't mess up." it foiled their plans.
Read another post. Yes the family was right
When I bought my parent's plots, I went up to the cemetery with 2 little old ladies who was about 150 years old old with hand written notebooks from the 1800s and a tape measure. They knew were every blade of grass was. Took us about 4.5 hours get everything lined up (one fell in the process) but there was no worry about being buried on top of someone.
I run a cemetery and there’s no purpose to move people after they’re buried unless the family wants them moved . Also they’re using concrete vaults which is very heavy to move and wouldn’t be something you just do easily
Makes total sense. Seems like a lot of trouble and risk. Personally, from the video, I find the cemetery guy credible, and the woman wacky. I bet this isn’t the first time she has made waves about something (“I have my rights..!!”)
Why do they use vaults?
@@SarahlabyrinthLHC I think to keep the ground from settling and creating a dip.
Strictly speaking, there are two kinds of "containers" for the casket--concrete grave liners and burial vaults. The former are comparatively inexpensive, while the latter are expensive.
Cemeteries usually require them so that the grave doesn't sink as the casket disintegrates.
Going through the same thing with my grandfathers remains!! He has been deceased since 85 and after a hurricane here in NC they claimed his casket washed up and that his remains were held for a year in the state medical examiners officer where no one tried to contact my family. They buried 18 bodies in a mass grave and the only way we found out my granddaddy was missing is by chance. So now we have a lawsuit pending against the state. Now he was buried next to my grandma how come she didn’t come up too! So now we had to submit DNA to Match dna taken from 1of 18 bodies that they didn’t even have the decency to contact the next of kin and they knew which graves were empty. Mind you this is 2 years after the storm!!
Did it get sorted out?
The reporter invented a new word ;
Mistakend.
That lady is nuts. She just forgot where he was exactly buried and won't take anyone else's word for it. I believe we all probably have went to a cemetery at one point or another looking for a grave of a relative, sometimes it can be next to impossible to find even though you have visited it in the past. Especially in a cemetery like that one where all the headstones lay perfectly flat.
how very true ,say if you go with somone like a sister and you say its only up by here ,and its not .its a different area ,so i can see hows it s done.
Face it, in order to get it right you have to draw them a picture.
"I'm convince. Very convince."
This video is obviously old - 2016. Just to let everyone know she was proven wrong about this. I don't know what confused her, but maybe it was this. At both of my parents funerals they had what i believe was called a false grave. They explained it to me beforehand. It was near the actual grave, but was closer to where the hearse parked so pallbearers didnt have to carry the casket as far. After the service the cemetery workers move the coffin to the actual grave. If someone didnt know this and came back later they would think something was wrong. Just speculating, maybe that is what caused her confusion.
UPDATE: The family was incorrect, the body was where it was originally located.
My great grandmas grave was dug up to make way for apartments. My house was built on an native mound, most house are built on ancient mounds.....
MAJOR UPDATE: That cemetery was found guilty and got sued of tampering with the graves, caskets & deceased, she wasnt the only person who filled lawsuits.
I hope you are correct because reading some of these negative comments is disgusting. Everyone is automatically assuming she is lying or trying to get money. I hope that one day when one of them go to visit their loved ones at the cemetery, the grave is no longer there.....that's if they even go.
@@erikmanguslehnsherr4389 They'll never broadcast the truth cause there's millions of cemeteries & funeral services accused of doing the exact same thing & with one proven solved case will cause and lead to hundreds & thousands of cases solved, but when you search for her name directly its says she "won" the lawsuit filed for it.
Umm.. the outcome came out a year ago. Grandpa still there at same place. Meanwhile you guys sucks.
@@lokisg3 yeah & so does your noninformative opinions.
Do you have a source?
I contacted the funeral home and the family of the deceased was wrong! Anyone can make a mistake especially in such a sensitive situation. However, my problem is the fact that the loud mouth, ghetto-fab woman made it public and had she been right we would've seen her broadcasting it to the world several more times while waiting for compensation for pain, suffering & mental anguish, now she should be just loud, on TV apologizing for her accusations. These type of accusations can hurt that funeral home's reputation & we work too hard in this business to earn the trust & respect of those we serve.
MsTheJohnsons true statement
Stfu and stop crying😂😂
Yup it was Me That's exactly what we say to the broke people that come through our doors causing problems. I would never bury my loved ones in a place like that heck I wouldn't bury my pet there & I would've got on TV drawing attention to myself if I used that cemetery
Yup it was Me your momma. ☻☻☻☻
MsTheJohnsons. Correct you are, the funeral home she is ranting about should take her to court. She probably doesn't have enough money to make that a fruitful approach (although, as you say, she would be going for the mental anguish and all that crap in a minute) , but there should at least be a televised public apology and some form of punishment. Like JAIL TIME for slander and false accusations. She was BS from the start.
We have to understand she was still greiving over the loss. And we need to be more respectful to her and her family. This could have been one of our family members. Let's us pray.
Let us pray this cheap family honors their patriarch with a proper headstone so they don't get confused again.
my question is, just how often does the family, or she, visit the grave?
I know at the cemetery I work for, we had a guy dig out the wrong space before. He decided to dig without having the space blind checked. Advisors found out quickly he dug in wrong place prior to placement. There is usually 2 or 3 people who flag and confirm before digging. The guy who dug out the space is no longer with us.
Somewhere her family members are shaking their heads in embarrassment and disbelief.
A certain cemetary in my city has been moving tombstones for years. My aunt and uncle's stones have been moved so many times they're almost on one of the concrete roads in the cemetary. (They were buried next to each other) We had to search for them. Now I suspect another cemetary in this city has started doing the same thing. Sad situation. You get mistreated in life, now they mistreat you in death too. Discusting.
These family members act as if grandpa knows where his body is.
My mom purchased the site in the best part of cemetery. We went to check day before funeral and they were digging on a slope by a creek. We had to have the funeral there and have him moved the next day. Funeral homes are shady and make a lot of mistakes
Very similar to Dentistry.
I worked in the field for fifteen years greed and fraud are practice daily💰💵💸🤑
I feel for this lady this actually happened to myself when my father passed away they put him in the wrong cemetery plot and when they did finally put him in the correct spot they tried to charge us all over again pretty sad when you have to sue a cemetery
WTH!!???
THEY SHOULD OF AT LEAST GAVE THEM HALF OF THE MONEY BACK FOR THE BURIAL!!!
MUTHER FUCKERS!!!!
The woman is clearly upset. It’s sad to think she believed her fathers final resting place was disturbed.
I’m Jamaican in heritage living in the U.K and we always backfill the grave ourselves.
Cheapskates
same here and look at before the coffin os seal
That sucks I hope everything works out.
I don't suppose it occurred to this ranting woman that it would cost the cemetery quite a bit more in time and machinery to dig up her father, move his coffin to another location, bury him there, and then bury a different person where her father was originally. That's just not cost-effective in a cemetery that obviously has ample room for fresh graves. Where is the grave marker for her father? I didn't see one and THAT would have moved as well, leaving an imprint where it had previously been, even after only a few days (ask any kid who has ever moved a rock from one place to another to see what would happen underneath and how long it would take).
One MercilessMing a lot of times the headstone isn't ready at the time of burial so it gets placed several weeks and sometimes months later
Soooo, this was in 2016,,, could you please post and "update" so we all may know what the outcome was? Inquiring minds want to know, Thank you
Their receipt would have a Plot Number -
but the thing is that they probably did not pay a thing the goverment paid and she is just looking for some money...
2lostangels do you say that cuz she's black or is it that's the stuff you would do be honest
William RobinsonIII cause she's a loud mouth black Lady
Art Howard have u heard about the plot number story? Was wondering!
Praying for all of u racist out there. How in the world did this become a racist issue??? Folk u have to stop with the hate already. It takes more effort to been one & act like one in action. America can never become great again with all this hatred going on. PFY
Shame on the family. THEY should be sued. People will read about their concerns but then not see the update that they were wrong and still have negative feelings for the poor funeral director.
You can look at the picture, he is clearly beside the other headstone. Now look at the video, the new grave is one row down from that same stone. He man is where he is supposed to be, she's looking at a brand new grave in another row. Would love to see how this turned out. She's looking at $$$$$ signs, not the grave site.
This is why I don't bury my victims in cemeteries.
Where my Father & Brother are buried in Atlanta, just beside a church, through the many years the church congregation dwindled to just a few & the church property has changed hand at least twice in recent years, the old church did a fair job of maintaining the church & the cemetery property, but the new owners- do absolutely nothing to care for the cemetery & the gravesite right out their side doors, I live a few hours away & try to visit a couple times a year ,
But generally spend a long weekend working 2 full days to cut back many months of overgrowth, to add insult to injury the county had purchased & developed the land behind the cemetery, causing massive erosion from the cemetery side, and plots are sinking & washing away, including my Father & brother... but not living locally,
It's difficult to get any answers,
All I know is the new owner- do not speak English, and are not Christian, and do not care or respect the deceased.
I know it might be a lot of money but maybe you should have them moved if possible. Thats a sad situation.
@@mitchdenner9743 Agreed...a very sad situation indeed. And also agreed that to have them relocated (and at such a long distance by the sounds of it) would be prohibitively expensive to all but the wealthiest. Darin, as much as I sympathize with your situation, it sounds like you are a Christian. Bearing that in mind, take solace knowing our earthly bodies are just empty shells when we die (ashes to ashes, dust to dust..). After Christ's return, all believers will receive their eternal Resurrected Body. This broken shabby world will be made new again, and become our dwelling place - Heaven.
I think that the fact the daughter was gravely mistaken and Mr. Coleman was Dead center where the cemetery said he was, she should be charged with slander.
In this business we're blamed for everything and most of the time it's the ppl that didn't have any money that cause the most problems. For instance, they'll have just enough to cover the casket but we'll still throw in extras like the limo/family car & programs then they'll call and say the car wasn't big enough, they didn't like the programs because it didn't have as many pics as they wanted. When you don't have money yet insist on a ground burial, PLOTS COST MONEY PLUS A FEE FOR OPENING/CLOSING THE GRAVE, so you find one that only cost 100.00. Well, you get what you pay for ,and after a few years you decide it's time to visit mom, dad, nanny, grampy, Aunt Lucy Mae's grave but either you can't find it, or can't get to it because the grass is taller than you. Now, you jump in your car headed straight to the funeral home going 100 MPH to act a fool with us when it's your fault you didn't buy/make marker nor didn't keep up the grave. A 100.00 plot won't pay for perpetual care and most likely the funeral home doesn't own the cemetery. Death is certain and we all know it yet you'll plan & save for houses, vacations, college, retirement & weddings but not for death then when something happens you have to figure out where that nice chunk of change coming from in a very short amount of time. People will say if you need anything just call me,but they don't mean, it's just a typical statement under those circumstances. The first time to you call you'll get an answer until you ask for the money after that something will be wrong with that phone & it's straight to the voicemail until after the funeral. Everybody needs life insurance however burial insurance and pre-need arrangements are options. Life is better because it's a set amount and after the service is paid for you get the balance. Funerals are costly and you still have to live afterward.
MsTheJohnsons Amen to that. That's why my family has a family plot in a cemetery in Richmond VA.
Cynthia Thomas That's right and my great -grandparents bought our family a section in a very nice cemetery back in the 70's even though they were buried out of state. We didn't know because we weren't born and only children when my granddaddy died in the 80's then in 06 my mom died and we wanted her next to her dad (our grandaddy). We were told it would be 2,000.00 in addition to all of the costs then we found out the blessing left by our great -grandparents. People need to get their business in order before something happens. Oh and for those who think that just because you have a new policy and a few months later the policy holder dies you get the full value of the policy NO most companies won't pay the full value unless the policy is 2 years old.
MsTheJohnsons My grandmother used to take me out to the cemetery and tell me about the family history -this was before the internet -she would tell me who the person was and the relationship that I had with that person. When I go to Richmond, I go to FIVE CEMETERIES that have my relatives. And that's just my mothers side of the family. My dad's side of the family is more harder as some of his family are buried in Tennessee ,where I don't know.
So tell me why does it cost so much to bury a person. Rip off
Johnny Mensi Because ppl don't know they can do most of it themselves & cut down the cost alot
If they attended the burial then they should already know what grave the person is in. Sounds to me like they're trying to extort the cemetery.
Anyone here for 2019? I want to explain that a dead body is just that, a body. The essence of what made that body is gone to another place. Once the Soul and Spirit are gone, the empty "vessel"...the body is just that, empty. So it doesn't matter where one puts the body. I feel for this woman but I would hope people realize there is no one home. Grief is all that is left for the ones left behind.
The problem with that theory is that funeral homes prey on the grief stricken family who is not thinking straight , example ; my father's funeral in 2005 cost 27,000 dollars , when I inquired them to explain the cost , I was told that his casket and vault each had a 50 year warranty and that my mother opted for one year of grief counseling , my mother recently passed and her funeral , which was nicer then my father's was only 8500 dollars , when I asked the funeral director about my father's funeral , he simply stated that they took advantage of your mother
It most certainly does matter. It's a matter of honoring the deceased person and the family.
If the family is willing to pay for the exhumation, and the cemetery is willing to do whatever it takes, then this shouldn't take long.
And I hope the cemetery took legal action against those people. What a ridiculous, defamatory thing to say. SMH.
For real!
She very convince very CONVINCE.
Lol i remember this story now they were on the news a few times. They were wrong and last i heard there was a lawsuit against the family to pay for all the digging they did just to prove it
Did I miss something?? Was her Father in the grave they exhumed????? Did I miss that??? 😥
That's Atlanta for ya
My brother died in 2007 we buried him July 25 ,2007 mother about 3 maybe gets a phone call from the cemetery stating they have to move him because he was buried in somebody else's plot the only thing they said they could do was move him and they gave j him his own grave and told my mother and his son that they would give him the grave right next to him for nothing because of the mistake they had made
Please tell me? In the United Kingdom, our deepest graves are 21 feet deep! This is for up to 3 people/family buried on top of each other. This allows 7 feet deep between each! Looking at this buriel, at best, it looks like 2 feet? A bit shallow?
that is a 6 ft grave I think... if nobody is underneath then it is a single...
I highly doubt they are 21ft deep, ours are a maximum of 7ft deep for 3 coffins
COULDN'T EVEN BUY A BURIAL PLAQUE FOR THAT PERSON ..SAD
Wonder how this was resolved since it's been about 2 years?
JeffGuy Poe the family was wrong
The lady clearly has mental health issues.
I'm sorry but, Can we talk about the Reporters name?
"I wouldn't care if we gotta dig em' back up." LMFAOOOO. 😂💀💀
It takes a lot of work and heavy equipment to move a loaded vault. I bet they weren't paying good attention when the photo was taken.
come on people we are all created equal..... I love u all😁 peace!!!
"You moved the headstones but you didn't move the bodies! "
Imagine you’re just resting in peace, and all of the sudden the news team is walking on your grave doing a story about how one of your neighbors may or may not have been given the wrong bed
That cemetery VP has got one smooooooth voice
He sounds like if Barry White and Ruben Studdard had a baby...one big velvet teddy bear 🎶
It's to die for
Wow dont smoke crack
Tom Sunshine wow you shouldn't smoke meth either
Tom Sunshine: Yea i hear Opioids is the drug of choice these days.
A CHOSEN VESSEL u shud no..lol
Tom Sunshine it messed up ur life....
Tom Sunshine don't tell me what to do Tom
Hopefully the family doesnt stiff them for the bill.....
It’s like when I can’t find my nail clipper so I curse out everyone in the house and a week later I find it under my chair.
At less their all black so they can't pull the race card
dustan jones ...and were you born in America? 😂
dustan jones you should pull your spelling and grammar card
dustan jones bad form...
"At LEAST THEY ARE or THEY'RE all Black so they can't pull the race card. Now write or type that 92 times.
Idiot
Some of these comments are horrible. If the family were bothered by this, they should have a right to ensure that their dad, grandpa etc..was buried in the right spot, so that they can sleep at night knowing. Your calling this woman ghetto only because she’s black!! If she were not black and was being just as irate, no one would call her ghetto...She would then be a concerned family member! People are really wicked!
Wow. She ended up being wrong. How Embarrassing for her. Lol
The problem with grieving is on the day, you think one thing and then when you look at pics, it's another. And all it takes is one person so obsessed with being right, that you have to jump through hoops to show them what they need. I hope she was satisfied with the answer, but I doubt she ever will be.
Why was an empty vault buried to begin with?
300 club I think someone bought the plot.
Did you not read the article? SMH.
It's a lawn crypt
Kutiepie Slotz Almost! It’s actually just a pre-installed vault, common through about 1996 in the US.
Dan Mills duuude LMAO!!!!!!
I think it is faulty memory caused by the trauma of the funeral. Several times I have gone back to visit the grave of someone whose service I attended a few weeks or even a few days earlier. And several times the grave location was slightly different from the way I recalled it. And since 2 of them were at a cemetery that my aunt was director of, I seriously doubt anything shady was going on
The man aint in there hes dust
That Poor Family. I Believe the Family. I pray that everything works out for them & that they find PEACE !!!!!!!!!
It is very confusing when you bury someone at the cemetery, when they have the area covered with Astro turf and its hard to get your bearings on the exact location. Imagine being all upset. Your not paying that much attention to your surroundings. If I went back later to the spot I though was and there was an empty vault, I would definitely get freaked out.
This is very true. It's very easy to to get it mixed up when you go back to the site. Even when I go visit relatives graves that have been passed, I always end up getting mixed up and it takes me a while to find the grave markers.
If that was in my cemetery, I would have opened the grave and confirmed the identity that day. The funeral director is correct. There is no doubt about the grave location after looking at the picture.
This is terribly sad for the family and for their loved one buried.
Umm, especially since they were wrong!!
I can see where this lady is coming from. A simple fix for that is to not leave until you see your family member go under the ground with your own eyes and get covered up. They tried that with my dad and said that we cannot be there for the grave closing. It worked for my cousin's but for me I went and sat on top of a tombstone two graves over and stare down down. So they finally put him in the ground and said I could go while they covered him up. That seemed to really suspicious so I took one other shovels and started throwing the dirt on myself. Then I told them I am going to need a $500.00 refund for do and get myself and then they started helping. I would not want a funeral home to just stopped me in the ground and resell the vault in Cascade to somebody else & I definitely would not want my family members to have that happened to them. Imagine going through the rest of your life asking yourself "what if? I wonder."
thumbs down for no outcome!!!!!!!
mic jam the family was wrong.
If I was their dad, I would never speak to them again.
🤣🤣🤣
Can't say that I blame her. Crazy stuff goes on all the time with mortuary services.
She was wrong why she getting dogged. She should do a public apology tho.
Very sad. Yes it happens sometimes.
That happens a lot just so everyone knows. Not trying to freak anyone out but it's good to stay on top of that situation. Make sure someone from your family oversees the interment process beginning to end and also check in from time to time. It's rare for it to happen at nice cemeteries but it's not uncommon at lower end and city ran cemeteries
God, they even bring their hood tendencies to the cemetery.
She probably just wants to sue someone , if the dudes willing to show her the grave hasn't been moved
People....
The Update to this News Story is that the Family Wasted Everyone's Time cause they were on
"The MARIJUANA" that day if the Funeral..
She was gravely sorry for falsely accusing them...