Fort Ward's Lost Graves: Who speaks for the dead? Richard and Mary Ruffner Certificate of Title

Fort Ward's Lost Graves: Who speaks for the dead?
Richard and Mary Ruffner Certificate of Title

“Examination calls attention to the fact that in the Wallace Smith description in the conveyance from Amanda Clark to him, being in Liber. V, No. 10, pg. 142, the east line of  the Smith property, which is the west line of this property, is referred to as running along “the line of the old graveyard”, there is no notation on the records of the creation of any graveyard rights but it is possible that old family graves may thereby be located on this parcel and the rights therein would have to be respected”.

Certificate of Title, prepared for Richard and Mary Ruffner, June 13, 1933