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Du Quoin cemetery uses divining rod to locate graves
In Du Quoin, IOOF Lodge plans to reclaim unused grave sites with an $8.95 grave locator a pair of copper wires. Caretaker Robert Hagen describes using the rods to detect unmarked graves along Potter's Field at Line and Cole Streets, comparing the tool to a divining rod and noting the poor records of burials since 1857.
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Bob Hagen
Southern Illinoisan
du Quoin Ioof Lodge Cemetery Association
Line
Cole Streets
Carroll Melvin
Melvin
Thomas Briggs
Briggs
Ed Graves
Robert Hagen
Ioof Hope Lodge
Hagen
Marco Polo
Orient