Members of the Phillips family say their loved one was buried at Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery three years ago.
However, they say they recently found a slab with someone else's name on it at the spot where their father, husband, and brother, Jackie Phillips, was buried.
The family says, although the wife of the deceased has visited the site at least three times a month since his burial, cemetery officials say that their loved one is actually buried in another location several yards away.
"We going to have to seek further measures because if it takes us, somebody, to have to dig this up and let us find out for ourself, we're not going to take this laying down," said Carolyn Phillips, daughter of the deceased. "We're going to push this further because this is not where my daddy is buried at."
Phillips says a small marker with her father's name on it blew off the site several months ago and family members had put some flowers in its place.
Meanwhile, overseers of the cemetery declined the opportunity to comment about the matter on camera. However, the Rev. Charles Johnson did tell Newscenter 11 by phone that their map of the cemetery shows that Jackie Phillips is laid to rest in another location and that apparently his family members have been visiting the wrong site.
Johnson also said management is sure that another person was not buried on top of Mr. Phillips, saying that is against the law in Mississippi.