In a message dated 8/12/2004 11:24:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, Patti600@aol.com writes: She did say that it might be a relation but that she thinks the mother of my great grandmother was Kyer or Kyes due to the placement of the stone right next to hers ***** You did not state the time period of the deaths. Lots of things could have happened that a non-relative is buried in the same lot or area. I have a group of Irish ancestor relatives that years and years ago bought many lots, so they could be buried together. As the years went on, many of the younger family group married non-Irish people, moved away from the town, married into other families that had bought many lots in a different cemetery and the 'younger couples' chose to be buried in those later lots...... Now the original large group of lots that the original Irish ancestors bought had many empty lots. The younger family members, who still lived in the state, had made other arrangements for their burials so they sold off the lots. There is now one family of Asian ancestry now with my Irish ancestors. There is no blood connection with them. This could be the case with the situation you mentioned. Learn about those people from census, probate records, vital records and other documents, to find if they are related to your ancestor. Read any history of the township or county for this other family. Another situation I found was a servant woman who had been with the family since she was a teenager, is buried with the family and is mentioned on the family monument. There is no blood connection with them. There are probably more reason why the person is buried there and not a blood relative. Susanne