-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AL-PIKE] FW: [COX] Cemetery notice Resent-Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 06:50:14 -0700 Resent-From: ALPIKE-L@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 08:45:20 -0500 From: "Tammy Cox" <tcox@arrow.com> Reply-To: <tcox@arrow.com> To: ALPIKE-L@rootsweb.com Forwarding this with permission just in case it applys to someone on this list. ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > > > << 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 > > ============================== Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com