There may be more than just error with this. My father’s family has a private, family cemetery. Without permission, unrelated people have been buried there several times over the past two decades, to the point that the cemetery had to be fenced and locked. With the cost of traditional burial being as much as it is, apparently there is appeal in a “free” burial plot, among a certain sort of people. Why the surviving family would want shame associated with the grave of their loved one is beyond me, but that was a couple thousand that they didn’t have to spend.
>>apparently there is appeal in a “free” burial plot
After the great flu epidemic of 1915(?) the Sewickley, Pennsylvania cemetery my grandparents are buried in was closed - there was too much midnight digging and dumping of flu victims going on.