Woman fights to have remains of strangers removed from family cemetery
There's a dispute over hundreds of remains people placed within Ruffin Cemetery in Tinton Falls.
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A woman who fought to keep ownership of her family’s cemetery in Tinton Falls is still fighting to have that property made whole.
Carrie Jones says the remains of hundreds of people were illegally buried on her family's property and she wants them removed.
Jones’ family has owned Ruffin Cemetery within a wooded area of Tinton Falls since 1927.
However in 2018, a cemetery conglomerate called, Louis Cicalese Cemeteries, claimed ownership of the property and started the process of burying the remains of 500 people on the land across from her relative’s headstones.
The majority of those graves are marked only by a green plaque with no name. Jones is now demanding that the company that put them there to remove them. Jones is also demanding $250 million in damages to repair the property.
The Ruffin Cemetery has remains of veterans from the Civil War to the Korean War.
News 12 reached out to an attorney for Cicalese for a response to Jones’ demands.
