There is a class action lawsuit against the Saint Stephen’s Cemetery in Louisville involving missing bodies.
Death certificates and cemetery records state that Edna Butler Erdman was buried in the Saint Stephen’s Cemetery in 1951. For almost a year, her great-grandson, Jason Cockerill, has waited and watched as the cemetery searched for Erdman’s body. He says it is nowhere to be found.
“They have no idea where to even look for my great-grandmother,” said Cockerill. “They lifted my grandmother out, vault and all, put her on the back of a flatbed, and then started to dig for my great-grandmother and they didn’t find anything.”
Cockerill said that the family wanted to move both his great grandmother and grandmother closer to relatives, but when the digging began, they only found a single bone where his great grandmother’s remains were supposed to be and that didn’t even belong to Erdman.
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Cockerill said that an archaeologist told him that the bone belonged to a child who died before the 1900’s.
Cockerill said that the caretaker panicked, ordering staff to dig up surrounding graves. One of the surrounding graves was supposed to have a man inside but was empty.
Cockerill said that another relative of his was supposed to be buried in the cemetery, but the cemetery has no record of the plot.
He has filed reports with the police and the attorney general’s offices who say they are investigating.
“I really don’t see anything getting straightened out until they start digging up bodies and finding out who’s where in that cemetery,” said Cockerill.
The cemetery has not responded for comment.
The Cockerill family says they are not sure if they will join the pending class action lawsuit.
