Monday,  May 28, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 319 • 22 of 34 •  Other Editions

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Women 'witch' for graves in N. Dakota oil patch
JAMES MacPHERSON,Associated Press

• DORE, N.D. (AP) -- Buried somewhere between a hill and the old schoolhouse site here are the remains of two young siblings who succumbed to illness and were interred by their family nearly a century ago. Except for dim recollections of relatives generations removed, the Bauer children -- a brother and sister -- and their gravesites are all but forgotten.
• Leann Pelvit and Romana Raffaell, armed only with old wire coat hangers and comfortable shoes, are determined to find the children's final resting places and

other lost graves along the North Dakota-Montana border. The grave-seekers' mission is to chronicle the sites with GPS and to protect them from being disturbed from the explosion of development spurred by the region's oil boom.
• "We want to make sure everything is marked so that someone's final resting place is not disturbed," Pelvit said. "A lot of these people have no one to remember them. Someone has to care

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