Family fights to protect ancestors’ graves in Sumter, SC [Video]

SUMTER, S.C. — Confusion at the cemetery is what’s happening right now in Sumter County. News19 heard from a man who says his family’s graves are being disturbed by a local business, and we’re On Your Side with what we found.

“That’s my father there. That’s my uncle right there. And my grandmother and grandfather back over by that tree,” Clarence Greene pointed out. “And all these people here, this is family members also.”

Greene remembers burying his father at the cemetery, which was surrounded by farmland when he was a kid. Now, a locally owned furniture store sits right next door. Looking through records online, News19 found that the business owner also owns the property where the store was built in the mid-1990s.

“I know there was …