Grave stuff

For the last 10 years or so I have been fascinated by cemetaries, gravesites and obituaries. I also get the Ripley's Believe it or Not cartoon in my email every morning and today there was an interesting one about a girl named Florence Irene Ford. Her casket was built with a window and the gravesite had an access stairwell down under the ground. Well here is a link to the grave site with the story.
http://www.natchezcemetery.com/custom/webpage.cfm?content=Gallery&id=29

Also there has been news story recently about the son of rock n roll pioneer JP "Big Bopper" Richardson putting his fathers casket up for sale on Ebay. Well he had his father exhumed and reinterred in a new casket in a place with better access for fans and near a statue honor the Bopper.
Here is a story from Jan 6th of this year about that possible sale and a good picture of Jay Richardson and the casket. http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=128&csid2=844&fid1=35599

As of yesterday I dont think the casket is going to be sold on Ebay according to the Beaumont Enterprise website:
Plan to sell Big Bopper's casket online put on hold
By COLIN GUY
January, 14, 2009
A proposal to sell J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson's casket through an online auction service has been put on hold, according to the founder of the Texas Musicians Museum, the casket's current location.
Tom Kreason, founder of the Hillsboro museum, said that since the plan was publicized several offers to purchase the casket have been made by other museums. Richardson's family, Kreason said, wants the casket to be acquired by a group that will display it in a dignified manner, respectful to the singer.
Richardson was killed on Feb. 3, 1959 in a plane crash that also killed fellow musicians Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, a tragedy later labeled "the day the music died."
Richardson's casket was exhumed last year so that his body could be transferred to another location. Kreason said that when a body is exhumed the law requires it be transferred to a new casket. Richardson's family, he said, felt that the old casket, which has been cleaned and sanitized, might have some historic value that is worth preserving as a reminder of the deadly plane crash.