Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NEW YORK, July 12 (UPI) -- Two women from New York's Queens borough are suing a New Jersey cemetery for burying their mother in the wrong grave plot 20 years ago, their lawyer says. Evelyn and Hortense Edwards found out about the mix-up last summer when they complained the grave site where they thought their mother, Beatrice Williams, had been buried since her death in 1990 had fallen into disrepair, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday. Advertisement An employee at Rosehill Cemetery in Linden, N.J., told the sisters the grave plot No. 103 they had been visiting actually held the remains of a man and that their mother was buried about 90 feet away in plot No. 132. The $25 million lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in New York alleges the sisters bought a plot at Rosehill Cemetery in January 1990, and intended on being buried with their mother in Grave No. 103, Row 20, Section 52, when they eventually passed. "What they want to know more than anything else is to find out where their mother is actually buried," said Stephen Drummond, the attorney who filed the breach-of-contract lawsuit for the sisters. Advertisement The cemetery sent Evelyn Edwards a "casket verification release" form last year to have the No. 132 grave site in question excavated to verify her mother's coffin is there, the newspaper said. Drummond also said that a small plaque that accompanied their mother's plot had gone missing. "We've been trying to keep the matter quiet so that another family doesn't have to go through the pain and suffering that [the Edwards] have," Drummond said yesterday.
