Sandi's Project: The Amazing "Pop" Adam W Wershing

Adam Wershing was born on Spencer Rd. (Now W 220th St) in what was then Rockport. He was born in 1875 and died in North Olmsted in 1968. As a young boy he read a book on the art of dowsing or divining for water. He soon found he had this ability. From that time, until his death, he located many wells in this area. His ability to find water had about a 90% accuracy rate. Many articles were written about his abilities. Most notably a front page article in the Wall Street Journal. He was also on a half-hour television program demonstrating his ability. Get a peach branch crotch and see if you can do it.

My parents were friends of the Roy A. Wershing family. My brother and Adam's grandson, Roy E. "Scotty" Wershing were friends. I use to see Pop driving around North Olmsted in his Model A Ford in the 1950 and 60"s. He was the building inspector for North Olmsted for about twelve years. Scotty was a well driller and his grandfather taught him the art of divining rod. As kids he would let us try our hands at it. We would walk across a known well with a peach crotch, we cut ourselves, held as he showed us. Never worked for me except when he placed his hands on mine and the pointer dropped, no matter how hard I tried to keep it from going down.

This is Pop in 1961.