Good morning, I was wondering if we have any list readers out there who might know about a baby buried in Ennis Cemetery before 1870 and who could help us indentify a mystery grave. Vicky Jenkins said that Dutch Beeson, her father, said when they were digging a grave for her granddad, Estel Beeson, that a body, that of a baby, was found where he was supposed to be buried. {he was suppose to buried on the other side of her Uncle Everett and before Eunice}. She said that was in Aug 1976. They stopped digging when they realized there was already a body there. She said that all of Albert and Laura's babies are marked, Olan, John, Eunice and an Infant girl. At the time there were no missing Ennis/Ennes babies so the belief is this child was buried before the family started the cemetery {that would be before 1870} but no one knows for sure. Donna Cooper

Good Afternoon Donna, Vicky and MOBARRY, I read your posting this morning and it got my curiosity up so I loaded ol' Dixie "the Cemetery Dog" in the truck and we started off for the Ennis Cemetery. The following may shed some light on this mystery. Using dowsing rods I worked the area of the Beeson graves. The rods indicate that there is no one buried in the grave marked by the headstone "Infant daughter of A.C. & L.F. Beeson." My guess is that your mystery child is actually the" Infant Daughter". In any event the headstone for "Infant Daughter of A.C. & L.F." is marking an empty grave. Jack Fly On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Donna Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > Good morning, I was wondering if we have any list readers out there who > might > know about a baby buried in Ennis Cemetery before 1870 and who could help > us > indentify a mystery grave. > > Vicky Jenkins said that Dutch Beeson, her father, said when they were > digging a > grave for her granddad, Estel Beeson, that a body, that of a baby, was > found > where he was supposed to be buried. {he was suppose to buried on the other > side > of her Uncle Everett and before Eunice}. She said that was in Aug 1976. > > They stopped digging when they realized there was already a body there. She > said > that all of Albert and Laura's babies are marked, Olan, John, Eunice and an > Infant girl. At the time there were no missing Ennis/Ennes babies so the > belief > is this child was buried before the family started the cemetery {that would > be > before 1870} but no one knows for sure. > > Donna Cooper > > > > The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - ([email protected]) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thanks, Jack. I added this new information to the Ennis front page. I do know for a fact that using dowsing rods works and so I want to thank you for going out there and checking this information out for us. It is good that Vicky passed that information on to us, too. Ted Roller gave me some rods when we did Oak Hill. And so when in Minnesota a few weeks ago, we used them to locate the graves that we were putting up new stones for. It was fun - because everyone who came out to the cemetery had to try them out. Some people grasp the theory quickly and others just couldn't get it. We took orange spray paint and marked the grassy spots where the bodies laid so that we knew where the stones were to be placed.  As you know babies and children are much shorter and the rods prove that for you, too. I even found one grave that was about 10 feet long. A man there told me that his mother and her child, at her feet, were both in one grave - and so that was why that grave was so long.  I must add here that I do believe now that I can distinguish the difference between a male from a female by using them. This is a great tool and want to thank you or whoever it was that introduced this technique to our grave studies.  Donna   ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jack Fly <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: VickyDon Jenkins <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, August 13, 2010 3:21:31 PM > Subject: Re: [MOBARRY] Grave Mystery > > Good Afternoon Donna, Vicky and MOBARRY, > > I read your posting this morning and it got my curiosity up so I loaded ol' > Dixie "the Cemetery Dog" in the truck and we started off for the Ennis > Cemetery. > > The following may shed some light on this mystery.  Using dowsing rods I > worked the area of the Beeson graves.  The rods indicate that there is no > one buried in the grave marked by the headstone "Infant daughter of A.C. & > L.F. Beeson."  My guess is that your mystery child is actually the" Infant > Daughter".  In any event the headstone for "Infant Daughter of A.C. & L.F." > is marking an empty grave. > > Jack Fly > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Donna Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Good morning, I was wondering if we have any list readers out there who > > might > > know about a baby buried in Ennis Cemetery before 1870 and who could help > > us > > indentify a mystery grave. > > > > Vicky Jenkins said that Dutch Beeson, her father, said when they were > > digging a > > grave for her granddad, Estel Beeson, that a body, that of a baby, was > > found > > where he was supposed to be buried. {he was suppose to buried on the other > > side > > of her Uncle Everett and before Eunice}. She said that was in Aug 1976. > > > > They stopped digging when they realized there was already a body there. She > > said > > that all of Albert and Laura's babies are marked, Olan, John, Eunice and an > > Infant girl. At the time there were no missing Ennis/Ennes babies so the > > belief > > is this child was buried before the family started the cemetery {that would > > be > > before 1870} but no one knows for sure. > > > > Donna Cooper > > > > > > > > The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - ([email protected]) > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - ([email protected]) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >the subject and the body of the message >