I’ve seen first hand barbed wire strung to trees instead of posts that have over time become embedded deep within the tree trunk. I searched and found an old forgotten family cemetery in rural north Alabama where the last burial was in the 1950’s. The graves were overgrown with trees 10+” in diameter coming up through the graves. Most of the 60 or so graves in this heavily wooded cemetery have been lost to time, covered completely with growth.
How incredibly sad. At the least, someone should put up a plaque that lists the names of the people lost in that forest and their dates.
I have 7th great grandparents who were buried in a Dutch Reformed Churchyard. The church wanted to expand, so they just built on top of the graves and moved the markers into the new surrounding grass area.
The cemetery for a set of 4th great grandparents was destroyed for a new highway and the graves “moved” to a new cemetery called the “Old Cemetery.” I mentioned to the manager that the area seemed too small for all the graves and he explained that the way they dug them up was to dig down and look for where the dirt changed color. Then they shoveled all the differently colored dirt into caskets and re-buried that.