Note: The Commonwealth of Va. requires a court order to move a grave.. If the person or company who wants to remove the grave does not know a family member to contact, sometimes they will place a notice in a local paper asking for relatives.. so check court records and newspapers in the area. Recently a local man wanted to move some graves to make room for a subdivision.. He placed a notice in the paper asking if anyone knew who a woman who was buried there... The woman was my step gggrandmother who had been buried beside her first husband.. I believe she was an ancestor, ggrandmother etc., of the person wishing to move the grave.. I guess he moved her and did not know this.. but maybe he did some research and found out... G. Lee Hearl Authentic Appalachian Storyteller Abingdon, Va..