If anyone has the names Holloway in their search list this is important
information.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Smith" <prsmith(a)pdq.net>
To: <BEASLEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 10:35 PM
Subject: [Beasley] HOLLOWAY Family Cemetery
> << This was in Tues, 8 May, Springfield MO News Leader,
p.
5B:
> Discovery of cemetery halts roadwork--Associated
Press-Kansas City--
> Construction of a new highway in south Kansas City has
been halted by
> the discovery of a small cemetery dating back to the Civil
War era.
> State officials are anxious to find any descendants of the
Holloway
> family who are bured in the cemetery. If the heirs can't
be found, the
> state will have to get court permission to move the nine
graves in the
> plot, in order to finish a new Missouri 150.
> Construction workers recently unearthed a marble
headstone, dating
> from 1858, while moving a large section of water pipe.
> Archaeologists later found another headstone and evidence
of seven
> other graves.
> The site has not been disturbed further.
> --------
> Please pass this on to other lists.
>
> Betty White
> Santa Barbara, CA
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