A few years ago, after Reed's Dad passed away. We decided we needed to purchase grave plots for ourselves. Creepy I know! Both of our Father's are buried in this cemetery. It really is a very peaceful, beautiful place and not crowded but getting more popular as the years go on. Plus, we don't want our kids to have to worry about that. The plots we bought are at the head of Reed's Dad's. Wanting to keep the family together, ya no! Matter of fact the whole corner was bought up by family members.
Well, while visiting the cemetery, we found out someone had been buried in our plot. WHAT!!!! And after looking a little closer we also found out that 2 other family plots had been used. YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING!!!!!! NOPE!
Somehow in the last 6 years, someone unmarked them as being sold. Grrrrh!
The sexton asked, what can we do to make this right with you? Move the buried man......! DAAHHH!
No just kidding. We just want some new plots and not to far from our family. Luckily, they had some right across the road, (unless there is a mistake there!) But our names our in the books again (which we watched being put in the books last time). I even asked the person that was in charge of the stuff the first time, how will we know that these won't get sold. She said you're in the books and your names are on the map. OKAYYYYY! Somehow it all was removed. I wouldn't want the job of keeping it straight. The turn over of keepers, changes to often. And not all are good bookkeepers.
We were treated really good and feel like things were made right, but learned that this is something to check on regularly.
The ironic thing is, we know the person that was buried in our plot. A really wonderful person and a very sad loss. We couldn't think of a better person to have laid to rest in our spot. So we're happy about that. We could have easily been to that funeral and can you imagine the surprise it would have been for us at the cemetery.......!
Well, it all turned out alright.
And we hope it can be a Sacred place, one of peace, comfort and love for his family to visit.
