W.Va. to make room for highway by ...

relocating a cemetery. West Virginia Highway Department officials are going to move the cemetery to make room for the next phase of the Coalfields Expressway.

Tennessee woman battles state DOT over land for highway

The Tennessee Department of Transportation already acquired some of the land of Dorothy Beard, but now that says design plans have changed and that it needs more of her land -- including part of the family cemetery -- to complete its Highway 840 project. TDOT says it won't touch any graves.