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In 1982, Kathy Salyer bought four contiguous gravesites (Lot 14) and a fifth plot (Gravesite 15) directly north of them in Washington Regular Baptist Church Cemetery near Versailles, Indiana. For each plot, she paid $75 and received a certificate of ownership. Over the years, Salyer buried her father at the northern end of Lot 14 and her first and second husbands at the south end, with a plot between them for herself. She planned to bury her mother in Gravesite 15, next to her father.
Three decades after the purchase, in early 2014, Salyer was shocked to discover that a stranger named Lowell Johnson had been buried in the gravesite meant for her mother. She contacted the cemetery, which acknowledged that it had made a “mistake” and inadvertently sold Gravesite 15 twice, first to Salyer in 1982 and later for the burial of Johnson in 2013. Salyer asked the cemetery to relocate Johnson, but Johnson’s family objected. Instead, the cemetery offered Salyer the gravesite direc