Rosary beads lie on the soil at the site where Mary Richardson Kennedy was originally interred near the twin grave stones of Sargent Shriver and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, top center, in Saint Francis Xavier Cemetery in Centerville, Mass., Saturday, July 14, 2012. Seven weeks after her suicide, Mary Richardson Kennedy was reburied in a Cape Cod cemetery 700 feet from her original grave near other Kennedy family members. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Rosary beads lie on the soil at the site where Mary Richardson Kennedy was originally interred near the twin grave stones of Sargent Shriver and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, top center, in Saint Francis Xavier Cemetery in Centerville, Mass., Saturday, July 14, 2012. Seven weeks after her suicide, Mary Richardson Kennedy was reburied in a Cape Cod cemetery 700 feet from her original grave near other Kennedy family members. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Religious statues and American flags stand at the grave site to which Mary Richardson Kennedy's body was moved in Saint Francis Xavier Cemetery in Centerville, Mass. on Saturday, July 14, 2012. Seven weeks after her suicide, Mary Richardson Kennedy was reburied in the Cape Cod cemetery 700 feet from her original grave near other Kennedy family members. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
FILE - In this 2008 file photo provided by Peter Michaelis, Mary Richardson Kennedy poses for a photo outside her Bedford, N.Y. home. Kennedy?s remains were exhumed from their original interment spot and reburied at the Cape Cod cemetery 700 feet from her original grave. She was reportedly moved at the request of her late husband, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and reburied in late June on a hilltop surrounded by empty plots he's negotiating to buy. (AP Photo/Peter Michaelis, File) MANDATORY CREDIT
CENTERVILLE, Mass. (AP) ? Seven weeks after she hanged herself, Mary Richardson Kennedy was reburied in a Cape Cod cemetery 700 feet from her original grave near other Kennedy family members.
Frank Maki, superintendent of the St. Francis Xavier Cemetery near Hyannisport, told The Associated Press on Saturday that Robert Kennedy's estranged wife was exhumed earlier this month. She was first buried on May 19 near her husband's aunt and uncle, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver.
Robert Kennedy Jr. reportedly asked that Mary Kennedy be reburied on a hilltop surrounded by empty plots he's negotiating to buy.
Calls from the AP to people representing Mary and Robert Kennedy were not immediately returned on Saturday.
The 52-year-old mother of four hanged herself on May 16 in a barn by the couple's home in New York's Westchester County amid bitter divorce proceedings, after he won temporary custody of their four children, ages 11 to 18.
Since he filed for divorce two years ago, her battle against drug and alcohol addiction included an arrest for driving while intoxicated. An autopsy report showed she had antidepressants in her system when she died.
In a court affidavit linked to their divorce, Robert claimed his wife beat him, threatened suicide in front of her children, ran over the family dog and drank until she passed out.
The Richardson family said his account was filled with lies.
They lost a court fight to bury her at a location of their choosing.
The Cape Cod cemetery is in Centerville, near the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport.
Mary Kennedy's relatives did not attend the funeral Robert Kennedy organized in Bedford, N.Y., the Westchester County town where they lived. After her burial, the Richardsons organized a private tribute to her in Manhattan.
Photos show her new grave near the cemetery entrance is marked by small religious statues and two American flags.
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