Have you ever tried dowsing for graves? There is an art to it, but I’d swear that it works. There’s an interesting article in the Simcoe [Ontario] Reformer dealing with finding graves at a former poor house site. Following is a teaser.
A woman in touch with the energy of the dead has determined what is believed to be the location of the four
corners of the old poorhouse cemetery in Simcoe.
“No one has been able to tell us that before,” said Irene Hopper, member of the Norfolk Chapter of the Ontario Genealogical Society.
It’s an exciting advancement for the society, which has been working to map the lost graveyards of Norfolk County for several years. More than 140 have been found.
In 2007, a dowser from Kitchener located about 50 unmarked graves at the old poorhouse cemetery.
The local genealogical society invited dowser Mae Leonard to help define the parameters of the burial ground at the former Norview Lodge site on Queensway West.
She has located hundreds of unmarked graves.
Read the full article in the Simcoe Reformer.
