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From: "Lena" <>
Subject: [MORAY-CGA] cemetery found
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 23:35:27 -0500
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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.




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