This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFC.2ACI/1393.2 Message Board Post: Hi Keith, I just saw your query about plot ownership. My great grandfather bought 8 plots Sept of 1904 in Eau Claire. Even though all of his family mostly lives in the Minneapolis area now. It never occure to anyone that he had any descendants.(he has many) So when a great great great nephew told the cemetery association he was the only living relative. They gave him the plots with no questions asked. I had to fight back by givinging them death records and birth certificates and obits to prove who I was and also all of my genealogy along with all of my first cousins. Lukily I got our family plot back because he was going to sell the remainder plots (6 of them). And it is believed that there are 3 people buried there maybe even 4, The cemetery records burned in 1925. I was mortified that this could happen. Roxanne