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From: "Lois Long Carey" <>
Subject: Re: [PACE] Proofs for John of M ancestry - finding old graves
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:53:20 -0500
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Thanks, Joe Anderson. I am not able to go to Va
and see for myself, but am hoping this school teacher
and his class may be able to detect more on another
trip. As I said in my message, noone has lived on
the land since 1910, so if there is an indication that
these are really graves., they are probably the
graves of my grandfather and uncle.
I hope to have them marked, as there is soon to
be built a large sub-division nearby.

Lois CArey
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From: "Janders 45" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: [PACE] Proofs for John of M ancestry - finding old graves


> Lois,
>
> While the instrument you describe might well detect gases given off by a
recently dead body which is in the process of decomposition, I doubt that it
would be effective on graves this old since the bodies no doubt finished all
of the chemical reactions of the decay process long ago. Have you inspected
the site yourself? Frequently, it is fairly easy to see the depressions in
the ground that result from the collapse of the coffins, assuming that the
burial site has been left undisturbed. One of my vivid memories as a
youngster was helping my grandfather (then in his 90's) and father pour
cement slabs to mark the graves of my g-grandfather and several other
relatives. This was an old family burial ground in the midst of pure forest
now owned by a large timber company. The graves were around 70 years old at
the time that we poured the slabs but it was quite easy to see the perfectly
rectangular depressions where each grave had sunk about 4 to 6 inches below
the surrounding surface.
>
> I visited the site about 3 years ago and was pleased to see that our slabs
were still intact. The timber company had clear-cut the area, but they had
left the cemetery completely undisturbed, which they might not have done had
we not poured the slabs. I was about 10 years old at the time, and my job
was to use a stick to write in the cement the names given to me by my
grandfather. "What's his name, Grandpa?" I asked, when we came to the last
and largest slab. "Same as yours, Joseph Anderson. That's your
great-grandfather." I remember having a bit of an odd feeling as I
scratched my own name into a tombstone.
>
> Joe Anderson
>
>
>
> > From: > To: > Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007
06:51:02 -0500> Subject: Re: [PACE] Proofs for John of M ancestry
> > Thank you, Joe Anderson , for your message.> I really don't think I
want to disturb the graves.> I thought I had read or seen somewhere that>
there was some sort of instrument which could> be passed over ground and it
would emit some> sort of indication of human remains beneath.> This may be
the same thing that is done today> when , such as the Oklahoma City Bombing>
there were trying to locate bodies in the rubble.
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