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Woman Accused Of Illegal Burial

Written by DeadGirl
Friday, 10 June 2005
By Michael Dunn RIVERVIEW, FL - A 60-year-old Riverview woman has been arrested and accused of illegally burying her husband in a local graveyard. Carolyn Martha Hamilton, of 10617 Cone Grove Road, was charged Thursday with trespassing and grand theft of services. She was out of jail Friday, released on her own recognizance. Her husband, Ralph Irving Hamilton, died Sunday after a long illness. He had been under the care of hospice workers, and a daughter had been named his health care guardian, records show. The Hamiltons were the owners of Hamilton Funeral Home in Riverview. About 10 a.m. Tuesday, Carolyn Hamilton instructed workers at Providence Cemetery to dig a grave, according to a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office report. That afternoon, she returned. The cemetery gate was locked, but Hamilton told employees to remove the gate by its hinges and bury her husband in the grave site, the report states. A cemetery employee realized something was amiss, said sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter. ``One of his workers had gotten a call to come open the gate so that a monument could be placed there,'' Carter said. ``When he got inside, he observed three males digging a grave and confronted them as to why they were digging a grave. They said they were told to dig.'' The sheriff's office later was notified, Carter said, and a deputy responding to the call ``observed a fresh grave with a marble slab on top of it.'' When questioned, Carolyn Hamilton did not have a death certificate or burial permit, officials said. She also did not have proof of ownership of the cemetery plot, they said. However, her son-in-law, James Rogers, of Riverview, said the plot has been in the family for three decades. Ralph Hamilton's parents are buried there, as well as Rogers' stepson, James McMillion, who died in 2003 at age 19. Ralph Hamilton ``told me that was where he was going to be buried because I used to drive out there with him and clean the grave site,'' Rogers said Friday. ``They say [the family] didn't pay for the grave site? That's a crock. His parents bought those funeral plots. They've owned those plots for 30 years.'' The Hamiltons had been in and out of court recently, mostly concerning guardianship issues relating to Ralph Hamilton's declining health. Last month he filed divorce papers, but he had been ill for some time and recently suffered a fall, Rogers said. Reporter Michael Dunn can be reached at (813) 657-4534. http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBD1TO6Z8E.html

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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