07/28/08

The Gravestone Now on the Site

The records of the gravesites at the Makefield Quaker Graveyard are not very clear.  There are two death notices that state that my grandmother is buried there.  I know that my grandfather died several years earlier and was buried in Milwaukee.  It would then make sense that my grandmother was buried next to my great-grandfather where there appeared to be an empty space.  I talked to the caretaker of the graveyard and she agreed with me.  She then placed a wooden marker for me, so that I could have a stone marker placed there.  After ordering the stone, I became concerned as to whether anyone was buried there at all.  If I could prove that there was a grave, it would most likely be my grandmother.  I had heard that dowser’s can detect gravesites, but my experience on old grave sites was that nothing could be detected.  I decided to go to the graveyard and give it a try.  I found that I could detect the four sides of this particular gravesite.  By now I was able to detect intensity on the many scans that I had done over the years.  I then scanned my great-grandfathers grave where he had been buried fifty years earlier, and found weak lines.  Those of my great-grandmother were even weaker as she had died earlier.  One of the sides of her gravesite hardly registered at all.  I then went around the graveyard and scanned gravesites of those buried at various times.  I found that as time went on the lines faded.  Those buried the same year seemed to show the same strength.  Some of the very old gravesites did not register at all.  There is now a marker placed on my grandmother’s grave (see above).  I now know that I can detect graves that are up to 100 years old without much difficulty.