Posted on Saturday, 8th May 2010 by Laura Hernandez
Dover has spent a year trying to find out what happened. Was his mother’s body removed after the burial? Or was the man’s tomb just placed right on top of her?
The Bradenton man is now suing a funeral home looking for some answers. It is the latest controversy for a Sarasota cemetery with such poor record-keeping that new burials were suspended this year.
Dover is not the only one with a story of finding a stranger’s grave on top of a relative’s remains in Galilee and Oaklands/Woodlawn cemeteries, two historic African-American graveyards reserved during the segregation era for the predominantly black residents of Newtown.
But he is the first to take the issue to a courtroom, where he formally accuses Chandler’s Funeral Chapel of inflicting emotional distress and interfering with a corpse.
According to Dover’s lawsuit, his mother, Mary Lane, was buried in 1988 an unmarked tomb like many others in Galilee Cemetery.
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