Historian Solves Grave Mystery
The location of an 80-year-old grave in Pratt, Kansas, was resolved Thursday morning. Corinda E. Miller is definitely bureid in Greenlawn Cemetery. The exact location of the grave was in question after a tombstone for C.E. Miller was discovered at 902 W. Second St., currently owned by Mary and Pat Gordon, during renovations to the house at that address.Fred and the Boys Construction were doing demolition on the west side of the house when they uncovered a tombstone under some old concrete with the inscription C.E. Miller 1887 — 1932, said Fred Sullivan, co-owner of Fred and The Boys.
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Once again, the use of grave witching does not prove graves are in the ground. At best, it possibly says something has disturbed the ground and that could be anything. Graves are commonly found by scraping the area and locating rectangles of discolored soil within the matrix of what is undisturbed. No hole can be dug in ground and refilled exactly as nature laid down that soil. Thus, if you have a disturbed rectangle of soil you have a grave shaft within natural soil. Then you start looking.
Here in the North East graves were often disturbed by the folks working for the W.P.A. Stories of workmen removing all the stones and placement along the stone wall borders of the old cemeteries abound. In one case a superintendent of the towns cemeteries from this time used old cemetery stones as a walkway to his home.
Up the road from where I live is a cluster of stones "Brought here from a cemetery up north" by a previous land owner. The origin of those stones is not known to current residents of the area. No cemetery is known at the current location.
Apparently stone acquisition is a phenomenon known in many locations.
Did the previous owner of the home own a monument making business? Perhaps he used a spoiled stone.