Tuesday, March 02, 1999
Lawsuit claims cemetery lost remains
BY DAN HORN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Ever since her mother died in 1994, Rosa Mae Bentley says she visited her grave almost every week.
All the while, she says, her mother was buried somewhere else.
In a lawsuit filed Monday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, Ms. Bentley claims the Beech Grove Cemetery on Fleming Road has lost her mother's remains.
Her lawsuit, filed in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court, states that she purchased a burial plot at the Springfield Township cemetery in 1994 after the death of her mother, Georgia Mae Sneed.
She claims the cemetery owners, Bethel A.M.E. Church, said her mother would be buried in a freshly dug grave close to where the funeral services were held.
She says she visited that site on a regular basis until she purchased a new headstone for her mother's grave in 1997.
At that time, she says, she learned that the cemetery operators had no record of her mother's burial site.
“Her mother was buried without a marker and without recording the site,” the lawsuit alleges.
In 1998, the suit states, cemetery officials dug up a grave while attempting to locate the site. The open casket, however, revealed the remains of an adult male.
The lawsuit, filed by attorneys Robert Newman and Lisa Meeks, seeks unspecified damages.
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