Now, the sisters are suing, seeking $25 million in damages from Rosehill Cemetery in Linden, New Jersey, for emotional distress caused when they learned that their mother, Beatrice Williams, had been buried in the wrong plot. “It was devastating for them,” Mark Crawford, the sisters’ attorney, said in a telephone interview. He said they only recently discovered the mix-up after complaining to the cemetery that what they thought was their mother’s grave, which they visit regularly, was falling into disrepair. An employee looked up the plot in question. “She said, ‘There’s a man buried there,’ and they said, ‘What do you mean there’s a man buried there?’” Crawford said. That error caused the sisters to have “visited the wrong gravesite, sought comfort from the wrong grave, laid flowers on the wrong grave, (and) prayed and had confidential conversations at the wrong grave,” it said.
