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Subject: [AL-PIKE] FW: [COX] Cemetery notice
Resent-Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 06:50:14 -0700
Resent-From: ALPIKE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 08:45:20 -0500
From: "Tammy Cox" <tcox(a)arrow.com>
Reply-To: <tcox(a)arrow.com>
To: ALPIKE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Forwarding this with permission just in case it applys to someone on
this
list.
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> << 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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