My aunt grew up in Matoka and my grandfather was a part time undertaker. I am trying to get ahold of her and ask if she knows of this cemetery. Lawson sounds familiar. Do you know the Ritter's? Take Care Brenda IN GOD WE TRUST....SUPPORT OUR TROOPS ----- Original Message ----- From: <commander@sunlitsurf.com> To: <wvmercer@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [WVMERCER] Question abt burial on private land > Glenda this is gonna be interesting to find out more. > I did hear a few months ago that a guy was buried beside his barn > on the eastern edge of our county line, near the New River. > > This sort of thing may be possible. I'm gonna follow this thread > close. Keep us all informed on what you learn. Glenn Belcher > > On 10/20/07, Glenda19@aol.com <Glenda19@aol.com> wrote: >> >> Sorry, list, for the morbid subject. >> >> It is said my grandfather William Taylor Lawson d 1953, Rock, Mercer Co. >> wanted to be buried "with his babies". There were 8 who died between >> 1916 >> and >> 1935. Few lived past the age of 4. Would he have been allowed to bury >> these >> bodies and his on his land? I think if it was legal there would not have >> been >> such secrecy about it over the years of his generation? Anyone have any >> thoughts? >> >> I have never been able to find his grave site. I have all the docs, death >> certs, funeral home records, etc. They all say the same thing - Lawson >> Cemetery, >> Matoaka. There is no such place, at least not that I have found after 15 >> years of searching. >> >> Thanks for any input. >> Glenda Lawson Wehage >> >> >> >> ************************************** See what's new at >> http://www.aol.com >> >> PLEASE CHECK EACH OF YOUR SUBJECT LINES! >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> WVMERCER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > PLEASE CHECK EACH OF YOUR SUBJECT LINES! > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WVMERCER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Glenn, I noticed the mail about this person and his family's grave site. I wonder if you have ever heard of "Grave Dowsing". It is like some people did a long time ago to find water for a well. WELL, you can find a grave site or buried bodies the same way. If the place that William Lawson and family is known approxamatly some one can find it with a simple dowsing. Take a wire coat hanger or welding rod and straighten the coat hanger and cut either in half. make a bend about three or four inches on each. Hold the rods with the long portion out in front of you parral as and walk around an area that you suspect may be a burial ground. The rods will cross when you go over a body (animal or human). When you leave the site the rods will staighten out again. Go the length of the body east and west and tell the height of the person. Hold one rod with a forefinger in the crook of the rod and let the long end dangle down. When you go aver a body the rod will circle clockwise for a male and counterclockwise for a woman. Don't believe me, try it on your wife or children lying on the floor. Have found lots of graves and determined the gender and approxamate age of each person. Found a lot of animal graves the same way. Try it and let me know what you think. Clifford Sands Madison, N.C. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brenda" <bgormley5@verizon.net> To: <wvmercer@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 5:39 PM Subject: Re: [WVMERCER] Question abt burial on private land > My aunt grew up in Matoka and my grandfather was a part time undertaker. I > am trying to get ahold of her and ask if she knows of this cemetery. > Lawson > sounds familiar. Do you know the Ritter's? > Take Care > Brenda > > IN GOD WE TRUST....SUPPORT OUR TROOPS > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <commander@sunlitsurf.com> > To: <wvmercer@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 4:18 PM > Subject: Re: [WVMERCER] Question abt burial on private land > > >> Glenda this is gonna be interesting to find out more. >> I did hear a few months ago that a guy was buried beside his barn >> on the eastern edge of our county line, near the New River. >> >> This sort of thing may be possible. I'm gonna follow this thread >> close. Keep us all informed on what you learn. Glenn Belcher >> >> On 10/20/07, Glenda19@aol.com <Glenda19@aol.com> wrote: >>> >>> Sorry, list, for the morbid subject. >>> >>> It is said my grandfather William Taylor Lawson d 1953, Rock, Mercer >>> Co. >>> wanted to be buried "with his babies". There were 8 who died between >>> 1916 >>> and >>> 1935. Few lived past the age of 4. Would he have been allowed to bury >>> these >>> bodies and his on his land? I think if it was legal there would not >>> have >>> been >>> such secrecy about it over the years of his generation? Anyone have any >>> thoughts? >>> >>> I have never been able to find his grave site. I have all the docs, >>> death >>> certs, funeral home records, etc. They all say the same thing - Lawson >>> Cemetery, >>> Matoaka. There is no such place, at least not that I have found after 15 >>> years of searching. >>> >>> Thanks for any input. >>> Glenda Lawson Wehage >>> >>> >>> >>> ************************************** See what's new at >>> http://www.aol.com >>> >>> PLEASE CHECK EACH OF YOUR SUBJECT LINES! >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> WVMERCER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> >> PLEASE CHECK EACH OF YOUR SUBJECT LINES! >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> WVMERCER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > PLEASE CHECK EACH OF YOUR SUBJECT LINES! > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WVMERCER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >