Sisters Sue New Jersey Cemetery Over Grave Mix-up

Evelyn and Hortense Edwards spent two decades visiting what they thought was their mother's grave in a New Jersey cemetery only to discover it contained the remains of a stranger, according to court papers.

Now, the sisters are suing, seeking want $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 on Tuesday.

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.

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