CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- For the past four years the Nelson family has been paying their respects to their grandmother at a gravesite in southwest Charlotte. What they didn't know is their loved one, Rebecca Grier, is not buried in the plot.

Now they have no idea where her body has been placed.

“It's been hard, re-living everything and trying to get it done and over with,” said Tameka Nelson. “We want her to rest; she's an awesome woman. She should be resting in peace right now instead of the family going through this.”

The caretakers at York Memorial Cemetery realized the mix-up when they went to bury the family's grandfather in the fall. He had bought the plot 40 years ago and wanted to be buried next to his wife and son who died in infancy.

The cemetery showed the family where he would be buried, but surviving family members said that wasn't the right spot.

“They're saying the paperwork really wasn't followed up,” a relative said.

On Monday morning cemetery workers dug up the plot where they thought Rebecca Grier was buried, but when they got down to the casket, the family says it was the wrong one.

In fact, the family was told the person who owns that plot is still alive, so there's another body that is misplaced and grandma Grier is still missing.

“It's hard digging up somebody that we thought was our grandmother. It's not and now it's going to happen again and again until they basically find her,” said Jotona Grier. “We want her in her proper resting spot.”