Originally Posted by aname

I don't think there is any implication that she didn't like the first headstone. I think the point was that they were moving the entire graveyard, and they probably went to the still available families with a few options. It's probably more cost effective, and easier for the movers to have new stones made and installed at the new site than moving the old ones, so they pushed that option. Then they just dump the old ones wherever they can.



I think if the family had lived at this location, that would have been the first thing to come out. Since it hasn't, I don't believe they did (this is easily verifyable/confirmable if they did.) Thus, I don't believe the _family_ buried the stone (nor the body) there.

It's pretty obvious what probably happened:
The movers were not ethical and did not move all the bodies all the way to the new site. They illegally dumped as many bodies and stones anywhere they could rather than moving them all the way and reburying them. It may be that this is the father's body, or it might just be another body from that cemetary.

The daughter certainly believes she is right. However, I would bet that neither her mother nor herself were on site when the cemetary was moved, and were not there when they re-inturred her fathers body. So she only BELIEVES the body to be there. After all, her mother got a new headstone made and placed there, and the cemetary TOLD them her father was moved to the new site, so why would she doubt them? The family has probably been visiting the new site for years thinking he is there. Heck, without exuming the new gravesite, how does anybody know if there is ANYBODY buried at that plot at all?