"Stanley W. Lowe"
"Necrological Research."

Grave Dowsing and Locating

Stan made a discovery in April of 2007. Read about it by clicking here.

Stan's first experience in a cemetery was in Kentucky when his cousin Shirley (Willis) Noel taught him how to "chalk" grave stones so the name could be more easily read.

Stan and Shirley Stan Chalking a grave

It was while doing some chalking in Merrimac Cemetery, in KY that his cousin Milford Lowe came driving a team of mules down the road and he met Milford for the first time.

Since that time, Stan has learned how to gravedowse, restore some gravestones and done an enormous amount of locating and documenting cemeteries in Illinois. The older man in the pictures is his Uncle Irwin Correll. Irwin was the caretaker of Pleasant Plains cemetery in Sangamon County, IL for years and years and only just retired this past year in 2006. He's in his 80's and at first thought the grave dowsing that Stan was talking about was silly. However, when he met Stan out at the Pleasant Plains cemetery and put him to the test, he soon became a believer. Irwin knew where some unmarked graves were located and without telling Stan what he was walking over, placed him in a position to walk over these unmarked graves. The grave dowsing rods indicated there was a grave there. Irwin tried it himself, and soon bought some rods of his own which he used a number of times.

Pleasant Plains, Il. Pleasant Plains, Il.

Stan taught our granddaughter and goddaughters to use the dowsing rods. Our goddaughter Brianna took the most interest and has used the rods to help people from other states locate unmarked graves next to stones where an ancestor is buried. She did this last year in the Bethel cemetery where there was a person named Conner buried and it was questioned whether the husband could have been in an unmarked grave next to her. Brianna found that there is a man buried next to the Conner grave but of course, there is no way of telling what his name is. But, it's a man.

Brianna Brianna

Our three goddaughters Brianna, Brandy and Abby have all won genealogical awards from the Illinois State Genealogical Society for their work in genealogy. Brianna won the award two years in a row 2004 and 2005. She has taken thousands of grave stone pictures in Menard county, IL cemeteries for the genealogical web site in Menard county.

An article on the how-to's of grave dowsing.

More pictures of our searches. Click on them to see a larger image.

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