Mary Lee Sloan said: >>However, I must ask -- how do you know those were current occupied graves >>or sites where the bodies have been moved. Did you dig and find casket or >>bones?<< We knocked on the ground, said "Anybody home?" If they didn't answer, we assumed they were dead. >>Now does your dousing only cover old graves or does it actually indicate >>that there still are remains at the site. If the graves are along the >>road, then the road did not cover them. << Okay, imagine this....you have a cemetery. This cemetery is quite large, over 100 family plots with spaces for 1,000 bodies, but only 700 or so gravestones. Many stones have been vandalized over the years because of neglect by the management. Within this cemetery are very wide areas for vehicular passage, wider than a horse and buggy. We are calling these areas 'roads.' Dousing has indicated that there are graves in these areas, except in a 10' wide strip next to the walls of existing family plots, which we shall call 'paths'. >> Is the dousing different for a grave vs. underground construction of >> electric lines or wates lines?<< I've never doused for underground construction of electric lines or water lines, but I have fooled around in my back yard and got nothing. I think the dowsers know when you are fooling around and they are not amused. >>I realize that most people think that every grave should be marked and I >>have been involved and seen where people were deeply distrubed when they >>see graves outside of cemeteries. There are small cemeteries around San Antonio as there are in all parts of the country.<< There certainly are. However, this cemetery is in a 25 block tract that contains 30 other cemeteries, and this cemetery has space for 800 bodies, most of which are prominent early settlers of San Antonio. >>The owners of the land removed the old markers (rocks, wood, or limestone) >>to insure that the property sold and that no one knew of the graves.<< I don't think the owners intended to sell these sections within the cemetery again. >>do I need to get excited about a grave that apparently the family did not >>care enough about.<< You are starting to irritate me. I think I'm gonna tell my big brother on you. >>Again -- should we be concerned if the family did not care enough to see >>to the permanent markings of the sites.<< See above. >>I don't think we should be that concerned. In the mentioned case, it >>would seem that simply keeping up the area would be sufficient.<< Would it be ok with you if we quit driving over the dead people, noted the location of the original path? >>And are you sure the bodies are there and not only the old remains?<< I thought bodies and remains were the same thing. >>You note that the county records the purchase of lots -- do they indeed?<< No I didn't say that he said that. >>Where would I go exactly? I don't have time to search for a site that >>might not exist.<< You would if you quit writing such long winded letters. ;-) Sarah