The growth process of the tree also raised the marker up about 4 feet above ground
I need a botany call made on this-If I am not mistaken, the growth process of a tree does not progress in this manner. I was always told that a mark on the side of a tree (for example) would remain at that same height no matter how tall the tree grew. Have I been spreading a lie all these years?
The tree grew "up" from, initially, beneath the markers, thus, raising the markers somewhat as the tree progressed upward.
I refer to "markers" because they write that there's another marker somewhere nearby that they haven't uncovered.
It might even be a case of the caskets of those buried there were made of green wood and they sprouted...or, perhaps also, there were seeds/branches among the flowers included with the deceased and those branches/flowers/seeds sprouted.
However, the point is that the tree began beneath the marker, and as the tree grew larger and upward, it grew first beneath the markers and then around them, raising the markers and encompassing them. Pretty beautiful story.