Our graveyards, cemeteries should be 'sacred' and preserved. However, time and events cause these areas to be put 'into perspective'. I've been hearing for years that we're running out of living areas for families at the rate of population growth. Discussions of 'stacking' our graves in order to utilize the space better as an alternative to the standard we now use. Creamation is another alternative for the desceased to 'take up less space'. I know of many instances of graves having been moved to other areas. My husbands great grandmother 'sold' 5000 acres to a large city for a lake that was planned in the middle of their ranch in 1930's. Her husband, aunt, and 4 sons (as well as some other graves) in their family cemetery had to be 'removed'. In Tenn. in the 1930's several cemeteries were 'moved' for the same reason. There are listings in libraries of these cemeteries and who Had been there (if known and marked) and where they had been 'removed' to. I have an interesting problem of another sort...My greatgrandparents and a couple of their grown children were buried in a cemetery and were 'marked' after 1900. A few 'people' including some city 'offcials' removed the tombstones and 'resold' the plots, thinking everyone had moved away and no one would know! Well that wasn't the case, but the markers were never replaced!! My grandmother visited the area and rememebered her grandparents and their graves. 'We' the descendants have had to find the newspaper clippings for 'our proof' ... Just a late night commentary....... Caroyln