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In Delaware, unmarked graves are quite common, even in prominent families,
most likely because of the Quaker and Presbyterian influence that shunned
any kind of personal ostentation. The Loockerman graveyard on the campus of
Delaware State University has never been marked, and now its location is
unknown, even though the Loockermans were among the wealthiest planters in
the state. Caesar Rodney, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was
buried in an unmarked grave on a family cemetery so obscure that the
executor had to hire an old family retainer to show him the location. Some
of these unmarked burial sites are huge, with over a hundred interments.
Noel Hume recommends two coat hangers and two Coke bottles, which seems to
work for those of us who have the special gift of divining, but there are
more reliable ways to find burials. One of them is a predictive model.
Dave Bachman and Wade Catts reported one such unmarked graveyard and
suggested a location model that appears to be quite robust.
David C. Bachman and Wade P. Catts
1990
Final Archaeological Investigations of the Lafferty Lane Cemetery 7K-D-11,
State Route 1 Relief Corridor, Dover, Kent County, Delaware
Delaware Department of Transportation Archaeological Series No. 80.
Copies are available free, from Kevin Cunningham at DelDOT. Order by email
from Kevin at
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