In a message dated 2/26/2009 3:39:21 PM Pacific Standard Time, il-cook-chicago-request@rootsweb.com writes: I recall Helen Sclair the "Cemetery Lady" saying the cemetery with the most burials in one grave (not plot) was at Calvary Cemetery with 10 (maybe 12). ************************** Basically they do that in Europe all the time since land in some areas has better uses, or is for some reason limited. A family may use a single or some small number of plots many times...They don't plan for bodies being put there and never being disturbed, so they use caskets that will disintegrate as the bodies do. What usually happens is that any bones found when grave is opened is put in an ossuarium with all the other reminants of others bodies. If deaths are not too close together, this works well. Buring a bunch is a grave without any removing remains is not usually possible...unless all prior decay to nothing! At St. Adelbert's, their term graves are 25 years, so I don't know where my ggparents final resting place is since in that family. they all bought term graves... Anettka **************Get a jump start on your taxes. Find a tax professional in your neighborhood today. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=Tax+Return+Preparation+%26+Filing&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000004)