The grave was there at least 2-3 years ago. The stone was in very good shape. It has actually been moved. The "now retired" coroner...and former funeral home director, said that he observed the remains being transfered into a new vault and moved out of the area by truck....said he was there out of curiosity. Also, the name of the vault company he refered me to...said they did not do it. The elderly coroner even said the coffin was wood and in very good condition...the old steel liner returned to the ground. It is all very, very strange. No permits were obtained at the county level and we do not know who claimed the body to remove it.

Is there some evidence that old CW graves are being opened like this...tombstones taken?

Yes, the cemetery is in poor shape. The three or four people that I have been able to track down on this family are not living in the area...nor am I. However, one time about 5-6 years ago three of us met and cleaned the area around his grave.

They left his wife in the ground (she had no stone), but took the bricks around her grave edges and replaced them in a neat frame around her grave edge.

It is just very disturbing that people can do something like this without leaving a paper trail.

Just hoping that someone out there knows where William H. H. Butts has been taken. It is thought by the retired coroner that it was somewhere in S. GA....possibly a family cemetery.