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On this profile another manager insist that the grave marker is to new and that the people listed on the marker are probably not even buried where it is.I know where this cemetery is my grandfather took me several times and I lived in that area. I found the direction and have put the source on the profile.Below is the source.It is listing 371.What if it is removed what do I do?

https://cemeterycensus.com/nc/warr/cem371.htm
WikiTree profile: Lusa Shearin
in Genealogy Help by Teresa Davis G2G6 Mach 6 (62.8k points)
retagged by Ellen Smith

This note is on the link you provided,

** These names and dates are engraved on a single stone or tablet which was erected March 21, 1987. It was erected to mark the graves of descendants of the Shearin and Harris families for the past 300 years, 1687-1987.

Unless there are photos of actual headstones or other records of some sort they have no idea who may or may not be buried there.

My church has a cemetery attached to it. there is one grave stone their that does not mark any grave. the person had it put there to represent the family members that died in the old country (land of origin).

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The statement which already occurs in the source, is that it is not believed that everyone on the marker is actually buried at the location the memorial was placed.  Think someone just didn't see the notation.  It also appears, with sources and explanation at the bottom of her spouse's page.  Thx!
by Lisa Franklin G2G6 Mach 2 (26.1k points)
edited by Lisa Franklin
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The marker cannot be older than the 1900 date of the last burial, so she has a point. Is the debate about where Lusa is buried?  You might have to try to find another way to prove she was buried in that cemetery. 

by Jeanie Roberts G2G6 Pilot (141k points)
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Could a compromise be reached by at least stating under the biography or another heading that this is a memorial to these ancestors, and it is unknown if the remains are interred there. At least future generations have a place to visit to pay their respects.
by Rodney Long G2G6 Pilot (872k points)

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