Mattie Smith and her family are searching for answers after she claims her mother’s grave has a different headstone saying someone else is buried in her loved one’s spot.

“My mom passed on Feb. 6, 2018 we buried her on Valentine’s Day,” she said. “I went out there and picked a plot and looked around I was looking for something for easy access for my family and I. We buried her thinking that my mother’s remains would be respected and that she would be alright. On the one year anniversary after we had left there from Mother’s Day we had left flowers and we came back in February to put some more flowers on there and we couldn’t find it and the reason why is that someone else’s headstone was on the grave.”

We need closure,” she said. “I am not going to give up until this problem is fixed. All I do is grieve and I’m not going to rest until I find out where she is at. We didn’t even have the privilege to go put flowers on her grave.”

Smith claims the cemetery is not keeping up with the markers and that she has appeared on social media and WSFA News to tell her story as well.

Smith also said her proof of purchase of the burial plot along with before and after pictures taken by her family members and herself are all the proof she needs to be sure that a mistake was made.

Selma Mayor Darrio Melton has told news outlets this has his personal attention.

“We take all concerns of citizens seriously and we will look into this matter further,” he said in an interview with WSFA in May.

The mayor’s office did not respond for further comment.

A lawsuit filed by Smith against Lorenzo Harrison Sr. Memorial Gardens and the City of Selma claims that Smith purchased a gravesite but on or around Feb. 14, it was “discovered that the plot believed to be the final resting place of Ms. Lottie Mae Hasberry was marked by someone else’s gravestone.”

The suit continues adding the cemetery is “unkempt and overgrown with grass and weeds.”

The suit also claims that employees of the cemetery damaged and destroyed Hasberry’s tombstone and gravesite.

Attempts to reach any cemetery employees were unsuccessful.