Occasionally bodies are exhumed and moved to other cemeteries, perhaps where a spouse or children are later buried. Whole cemeteries are sometimes moved to make way for roads, construction projects, lakes, etc. 

There is always the possibility that your ancestor’s final resting place really wasn’t final.

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