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From: "Angela Eubank" <>
Subject: Subject: FW: Holloway Family Cemetery
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:04:54 -0500

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Subject: FW: [PACE-L] Holloway Family Cemetery



>
>I am passing this on from another list.
>
>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 buried 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.




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