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From: Mary Wood <MWood(a)actionnet.net>
To: OREGON-TRAIL-L(a)rootsweb.com <OREGON-TRAIL-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Saturday, May 12, 2001 3:11 AM
>This was in Tues, 8 May, Springfield MO News Leader, p. 5B:
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>Discovery of cemetery halts roadwork--Associated Press-Kansas City--
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>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.
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>Please pass this on to other lists.
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>Betty White
>Santa Barbara, CA
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