Town settles with families of men in wrong burial plots
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A Rhode Island town has reached a settlement with the families of two men who were buried in the wrong cemetery plots.
A lawyer for one of the two families tells WPRI-TV the town of Tiverton agreed to pay each family $1,750 for burial and legal fees. The agreement includes an exchanging of plot deeds.
In October 2015, the body of 65-year-old Lewis Chadwick Jr. was placed in the wrong family plot at the town-operated Pocasset Hill Cemetery. Last March, 87-year-old Raymond Murray, who was supposed to be buried in that plot, died. He was buried in Chadwick's plot.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}All parties have since agreed to leave both men buried in their current plots.
The town said in a statement to Chadwick's family that it offers its "most sincere apologies."
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Information from: WPRI-TV, http://www.wpri.com