If the cemetery is ever vandalized, then you might be able to use that information as "proof" that there is no longer a stone. Oops, did I just give people a reason to vandalize a cemetery? :-) I hope not. But since it happens all the time, there could be one small advantage from it. I have a relative who has a stone in a cemetery a distance from the rest of the stone. In an area which was most likely the old church site. It looks like a government stone, but I was sure the man wasn't buried there. He left Crawford Co. IL for Texas and was killed in a border war, I think. Father and son had the same name, one died in Mexico. Can't remember which the stone was for. Now it makes sense, that this is a memorial stone. Always had me baffled. Sharon Howell