My grandfather was an alcoholic who became homeless. He was also a WW2 vet that had shell shock from the Battle of the Bulge (likely cause of his alcoholism). He passed out on a street corner in Chicago and died 48 hours later from cirrhosis of the liver. For 20 years we did not know what happened to him. Cook County said that they buried him in a cemetery. We went to the cemetery on the death certificate and could not find the grave and the cemetery had no record of his burial. We called about two dozen cemeteries trying to find him but also nothing. We later found out that there was a scandal in Cook County at the time where indigent burials were done in a mass grave in Indiana and the burial money was siphoned off and pocketed. We are resigned to the fact now that we will never find him.