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YOU ALL ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS ONE!!!:surprised:

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Wisconsin Pete

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I just got contacted from a small church that is about 20 minutes away from my house, he said the little town but I forgot it already...he just gave me directions to it....THEY LOST A URN! The pastor said they have a general idea where they buried it but are not exactly sure. I told him "YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME". He was very sorry and that he got my name from one of his worshipers and told me that the head stone for this person has arrived but they don't really know the EXACT location and that they didn't want to let the family know just yet. I told him I would see what I could do tomorrow...HOW DOES SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPEN IN THIS DAY & AGE?? I"m not happy about doing this as I feel it is deceitful to the family and very angry for the poor soul!:veryangry:
 
That story sounds a little fuzzy to me. Every graveyard has an exact location of the plot where a person is to be or already burried. They should have a map of the plots, and the plots are usually marked in four corners with brass posts driven into the ground. I would really question this and insist that the family be present when you are detecting since that burial plot is actually private property owned by the deceased and his/her family. You also could be arrested for detecting in a cemetery.
 
But it has happened more than once in the town I live in--I had to tell them where (2) of my relation was buried cause the town hall had (NO) record of them--I also was detecting around my family plots a few years ago and found a Cremation box and it was only 4-6 inches under the ground--I went to the town hall and told them--What do they do but send a street worker up and he takes his shovel and digs it up-Looks at it then reburies it with part of it flush with the ground--I felt they should have gotten a minister to do that--things happen don't they---I do not feel there is anything wrong looking for it as its better to find it and let the people who run the place correct their mistake--If YOU do find it then there is no hard feelings between the relation and the grave keepers--Maybe they will straighten there act up after that----I also know here where I live they QUIT selling plots it a area of the local graveyard because there were two many UNmarked graves--------------I will be buried in the OLD part cause I bought (6) lots when my mother died--The First to be buried here was my Great Great Grand Father--when I kick the bucket I will be the LAST by our name-----Just thought of something Maybe I should have my headstone read------Ronald Robert (Deathwind1) Rathbun------It sure would go with where I would be---What U All Think
 
Most early American cemeteries had burial associations that kept records and it is not until recently are the new ones recorded in town hall. My parents are buried in a very small country cemetery that was started in the late 1600's and when we went to buy a plot the cemetery association took out the records of everyone who was burried there and the exact location whether the grave was marked or not. Most of the older gravestones no longer have inscriptions on them but there is a record of who is burried there.

Who did you buy the plots from?.......they are responsible for the records. The urn that was burried may have been placed there by a family member and was not authorized to do so. All states have laws regarding burial and keeping records, whether or not the dumb A$$e$ you deal with know where to find these records is another story.

And I certainly would not put my detector into a cemetery unless I got written permission from the cemetery association......you could get arrested for "grave robbing" when trying to do a good deed.
 
I told him that I was feeling uneasy about doing this task on such short notice and that I really want to think about it before I make a haste decision. I just can't get over it...how does one loose an URN?!:sadwalk:
 
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