As part of a sales agreement between Texas A&M University and the city of College Station, grave sites at Luther Street and Marion Pugh Drive will be relocated to the Aggie Field of Honor.

“Several years ago the University sold some property to the city of College Station to allow the development of a new cemetery,” said David Morrison, manager of facilities information at Texas A&M. “The University required the city set aside an area to allow for the remains of those individuals to be replaced in the new cemetery.”

Among the bodies buried in the current obscure gravesite is former University President Lafayette Foster, who died in 1901.

“For many years, the current site of those graves have been fairly neglected and only in the last several years has it been looked at again,” Morrison said. “It is important to the University that we make sure that the graves of these people are taken care of properly instead of having them stuck in the corner of a horse pasture.”

The University has yet to hear any complaints from family members for moving the current gravesites to the Aggie Field of Honor, which is located in the center of the new cemetery at 3800 Raymond Stotzer Pkwy.

The family members that the University has been in contact with have had no issues in the moving of the graves, Morrison said. In fact, one family member recalls the first time the grave site was moved from the original location at Duncan Hall that the current location would be temporary.

There are no plans to do anything with the land that will be left behind.

“Just to reiterate there is no sort of mysterious under-the-table thing going on that is causing the cemetery to be moved It strictly has to do with putting these remains in a proper burial place,” Morrison said.

There is no budget that has been finalized which details what the move will cost the University, although there will be many variables to consider, such as the presence of an archeologist and the replacement of headstones.