We have them in Florida. At places, our limestone table is 3-4' below ground, making deep burials impossible. Some of the earlier graves are like that: coffins above ground, though some extend below ground somewhat. There are few places in Florida where people stack-bury. I never heard the term before I married in the 1970s and went to Arkansas. Some of my husband's family are stack buried. My NJ neighbor assured me this was commonplace in NJ. I've also seen this in New Orleans, where most burials are above ground as you hit water if your dog digs a hole to bury a bone. Also once in Atlanta. There was an old gas station with part of it's side land fenced around one lone coffin of that description. No one knew who was buried there, but it was so obviously a coffin. Wasn't an indian. The owner thought maybe a Civil War soldier and the family came back and erected the slabs. The owner put up a chain link fence 3-4' on each side of it, so no one would hit it or try to vandalize it. He even cut the little grass strips around it. I always thought that remarkable of him to respect the dead like that, especially with the going price of land per foot in Atlanta, and this was in the 1960s. Sue At 11:43 PM 6/15/06 -0400, you wrote: >I'm a bit curious about Indian burials in WV. My great grandfather purchased >a large piece of land on Mud River in Lincoln Co, not sure when exactly but >sometime around 1900 give or take a few years. The land is still owned by my >family today but at the edge of it is the Madden-Ames cemetery. In this >cemetery is a grave which is built entirely of shaped slabs of stone about >4 or 5 >inches think. These stones are placed in a way which resembles a coffin >(with >sides and a top), all above ground. No one knows who is actually buried >there >but the grave has been there as long as anyone can remember. My grandfather >told me it was always believed to be an Indian grave. I do have pictures >of it. > My question is has anyone else ran across a burial such as this anyplace >else, either for an Indian or non-Indian? > >Lora > > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx