When confronted with credible evidence suggesting graves from erased cemeteries could be on their property, the Tampa Housing Authority, Macdill Air Force Base, FrankCrum, Hillsborough County Schools, Pinellas County Schools and even the City of St. Petersburg hired archaeologists to search and shared results with the public. Aillen Henderson wants to know why the Diocese of St. Petersburg won’t do the same at the old Sacred Heart Academy along N. Florida Ave. in Tampa – once the site of St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery. Henderson is founder of The Cemetery Society, and for years has worked to protect local cemeteries threatened by sale or development. But now her fight feels personal. “My mother was a very active participant with Sacred Heart Church. She passed last December, unexpectedly,” she said. “Before she passed, she had shared with me that she thinks that we have my great-grandmother’s baby twin was buried at St. Mary’s, so she was asking me a lot of questions about the cemetery. The Diocese says all the graves were moved before it took over the land from the Diocese of St. Augustine in 1968. Newspaper clippings from the 1920s document a move to a section of Myrtle Hill Cemetery, but only made mention of 100 graves being moved. Those accounts also only mention 400 total graves. MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/special-reports/erased/st-pete-grave-sites-erased/67-dbe6326c-5eb3-4afc-b007-0716f921ac5b ►Subscribe: https://on.wtsp.com/youtube ►Website: https://www.wtsp.com/ ►Facebook: https://facebook.com/10TampaBay ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/10TampaBay