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Misplaced Headstones At Clermont Co. Graveyard PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Thursday, 08 June 2006
By Lance Barry
5/27/2006

A Clermont County woman made a surprising discovery when she went to visit a graveyard Friday. For Nita Kidder, of Owensville, the beginning of the Memorial Day Weekend won't be a memory she'll soon forget.

Kidder found a fresh burial site at the same plot she believed her brother was already buried in.

That somebody was buried at Wayne Township's Plainview Cemetery just this Thursday.

"When I came here and saw what I thought was my brother's grave, and somebody else was in it, it stopped me short," Kidder told 9News.

After losing someone, all a grieving family can hope for is that they rest in peace, but Kidder couldn't even find where her family was resting at all -- and that was just half of what 9News found out.

She called 9News for answers and we discovered that it was a case of a misplaced headstone.

9News was told her brother's stone was a footstone and not a headstone, causing her to mourn in the wrong spot for decades.

Wayne Township operates the cemetery, and a trustee there admits that allowing both types of stones is a mistake.

Dennis Elchlinger, the township trustee responsible for the cemetery, told 9News, "The brother is right where we are standing, this is where he is, right we are standing."

"I've always looked at my brother's head," said Kidder, "and now they are saying, I've been talking to my brother's feet."

It's an excuse she's not buying though. Instead she thinks now that grave site could be a bit crowded.

"No, I don't, I think my brother is here," said Kidder.

"It looks confusing. Maybe going forward we will set some different rules then," said Elchlinger.

But on this trip to the cemetery, Kidder had other pressing questions as well.

"They can't find my baby," Kidder told 9News.

She's talking about her infant daughter Paula, whom she believe was buried there in the late 1950s.

She claims her daughter's headstone is now gone, and cemetery officials weren't able to help her.

"If I don't know where my family is, does anybody know where their family is?," asked Kidder.

"If her daughter is there, she's there," said Jason Browning, of Wayne Township maintenance. "We've never moved her, we've never taken her out."

As a result of 9News report, Wayne Township has offered to do two things for Ms. Kidder.

First, they'll move the stones -- to the top of the family's plot to better represent where he loved ones lie.

And they'll also assist her in locating the exact location of where her daughter lies, so she can put a headstone there.

They also tell 9News, from now on only headstones will be used there to avoid situations like this one.


 
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