In a message dated 8/31/99 8:53:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, cindysaw@att.net writes: << If any of the people out there can ask their older rellies if they can remember a person being buried on their own land? Was it legal and if was it done? >> All I can tell you is that some of my ancestors are shown as being buried on their own property in Rutherford County, TN. Notes read "buried in back yard" or "behind so-and-so's house". Terry in VA