Awful.

Prince’s half-brother s...ears later

Alfred Jackson, known to family as “Junior” died three years after Prince.

"My brother helped raise Prince, he babysat Prince, they had a close relationship," Bruce Jackson said.

He inherited one-sixth of Prince’s estate. Family says money was no object in selecting an expensive casket and headstone. They say they paid more than $50,000 up front. Still, Prince’s half-brother lies in an unmarked grave.

stop ...this is court related and not about $

EnDoRpHn said:

Awful.

Prince’s half-brother s...ears later

Alfred Jackson, known to family as “Junior” died three years after Prince.

"My brother helped raise Prince, he babysat Prince, they had a close relationship," Bruce Jackson said.

He inherited one-sixth of Prince’s estate. Family says money was no object in selecting an expensive casket and headstone. They say they paid more than $50,000 up front. Still, Prince’s half-brother lies in an unmarked grave.

also 50k way off

GoldenDreds said:

stop ...this is court related and not about $

Did you read the story? This has nothing to do with the estate.

TL;DR - The cemetery where Prince's half-brother is buried apparently absconded with his family's money and never placed a headstone on his grave. They are so evasive that the family is wondering if they should have his grave exhumed to make sure he was even buried where the cemetery claims.

[Edited 6/17/22 23:13pm]

EnDoRpHn said:

Awful.

Prince’s half-brother s...ears later

Alfred Jackson, known to family as “Junior” died three years after Prince.

"My brother helped raise Prince, he babysat Prince, they had a close relationship," Bruce Jackson said.

He inherited one-sixth of Prince’s estate. Family says money was no object in selecting an expensive casket and headstone. They say they paid more than $50,000 up front. Still, Prince’s half-brother lies in an unmarked grave.

$50,000 upfront for the expensive casket AND a headstone?

$50,000?
I'm sorry, but I do not believe that. Expensive caskets are $10,000. As a veteran, he could have been buried for FREE in any Veterans' cemetery including a headstone. IF "they" paid that much and the contract included the headstone, it's a fraud by whatever funeral home/cenetert was involved.

He signed everything away the day before he died -- right?

BTW, the line about "Bruce Jackson, another slightly less-famous half-brother" is also false. He is NOT a half-brother to Prince. He is not Mattie's son; he would be the son of Mattie's first husband (Jackson) and Jackson's first husband/relationship. He would have been a half-brother to Alfred.

[Edited 6/17/22 11:35am]

Something's not right. It is a well known cemetery here in KC.

Here are some famous people that are buried here.

PennyPurple said:

Something's not right. It is a well known cemetery here in KC.

Here are some famous people that are buried here.

H. Roe Bartle - Boy Scout Chief and Mayor

Randy Carver - Boxer

Thomas Crittenden - Governor and Congressman

Lucy Drage - Interior Decorator

Andrew Drumm - Drumm Farm Center for Children

Uriah S Epperson - Philanthropists

Elizabeth Epperson - Philanthropists

Robert Greenlease - Cadillac Dealer

Joyce Hall - Hallmark Cards

Hare & Hare - Sid J. & S. Hebe - Landscape Architects

J. Logan Jones - Jones Store

Rufus Jones - Wrestler

Weldon P. Johnson - Senator

William T. Kemper Sr. - Commerce Trust

R. A. Long - Lumber Baron

Lonnie Logan - Part of the Hole in the Wall gang shot down by police Marlboro, MO

E. H. Newcomb - University of KC

J. C. Nichols - founder of J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain

Leroy "Satehel"Paige - African American League Pitcher

John Jordan O'Neil (Buck O'Neil) - baseball player

Kate Spade - Designer

President Truman's Parents

The Wornall's - Prominent Family in KC

Tom Pendergast - Political Boss

Elmer Pierson - Vendo Company

John H. Ricksecker - Medal of Honor

Joseph Shelby - General Civil War

Kenneth Spencer - Benefactor

Helen Spencer - Benefactor

R. S. Sutherland - Lumber Yards

Johnny Taylor - Singer, Entertainer

William Volker - Philanthropist

Seth Ward - Frontier Trader

Zach Wheat - Baseball Player

C. E. Whittaker - Supreme Court Justice

Thomas Wright - Architect

Also from the story:

"The Better Business Bureau lists Stonemor as owners of the property. The same page lists 132 different complaints over the past three years, many also for undelivered headstones."