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Woman hunts for lost graves using dowsing rods |
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 In her hands are dowsing rods; in her coat pocket are a screwdriver, wooden craft sticks and a red and a blue pen.
The red pen is to mark female graves, the blue is for male graves. The sticks are to mark the graves, the screwdriver is used to dig the holes to put the sticks in. The dowsing rods, two L-shaped metal rods, are the tools used to find the graves.
Actually, they are cut off and straightened coat hangers.
Walking down a gently sloping farm field, Shirley Wolf extends the rods in front of her. When they cross each other, she stops; a body has been found, she says.
She turns 90 degrees and walks slowly toward the west. When the rods uncross, she has reached just above the head of the grave. She had explained earlier that Christians bury with the heads facing west.
She then turns and walks the other way, stopping once again when the rods uncross below the foot of the grave.
"That's a good 6-foot-1 there, most likely a male," she says.
To be sure, she stands in the middle of the grave and holds a single rod in front of her. The rod points toward the head, which means it's a male. If it swings toward the feet, it's female. Wolf pulls a craft stick from her pocket, marks the height in blue and places the stick in the ground. Her tools back in her pocket -- save the dowsing rods -- she continues walking down to where the grassy hill meets the road.
As she walks, she calls out, "There's another one right there, another, another one. …"
The cemetery is one of about a dozen unmarked, private African-American cemeteries in Floyd County that Wolf is investigating. The farmland near U.S. 150 at East Luther Road once belonged to the Stinson family. The property's current owner, Larry Sperzel, remembers his grandfather telling him about the Stinson family graveyard as a child. But he never knew how many people were buried there and hopes Wolf will be able to find out.
She already has used her dowsing rods on two other unmarked African-American cemeteries in the area. Through her work, she says, she now knows of 10 African-American cemeteries in the county and possibly will have identified another five to 10 before she is done. A picture framer of German, French and Swiss descent, Wolf is focusing on African-American cemeteries because she wants people to know that, despite the ravages of slavery, "there are things that can be found."
As she makes her way down another row, Stinson family descendants follow, braving the cold and wind. One of them, Eric Thomas, shakes his head.
Full article from Courier-Journal
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